Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Audiobook

Quotes

• “Meticulous history…helps the reader comprehend the original shock of the film.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Rebello talked with virtually every surviving participant in the filmmaking. The result is a book that will inform cineastes and indulge Psychomanes.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Fascinating.”

  — Newsweek

• “Joyously entertaining.”

  — Sunday Telegraph (London)

• “Meticulously researched and irresistible…Required reading not only for Psycho-philes but also for anyone interested in the backstage world of movie creation.”

  — Anthony Perkins, star of Psycho

• “Essential…I’ve learned so much from reading this book.”

  — Gus Van Sant, award-winning film director

• “One of the best accounts of the making of an individual movie we’ve ever had.”

  — Richard Schickel, Time film critic

• “We are indebted to Stephen Rebello’s labor of love. He sweats the details as much as Hitchcock at his most compulsive.”

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• “Garcia’s reading is clipped and precise. When quoting the great filmmaker, Garcia’s voice takes on Hitchcock’s slow, impishly boastful style without trying to imitate it.”

  — AudioFile

• “In some ways a groundbreaking film, Psycho has been extensively written about and minutely analyzed…Rebello’s book has added considerable color gained from extensive interviews with Hitchcock and others who worked on the film.”

  — Library Journal