Over at Roger Ebert’s website, they’re republishing an interview he did with the legendary director, Alfred Hitchcock, in 1969. Very entertaining. Hitch informs us:
My pictures become classics, magically, with age. The critics never like them first time around. I remember when ‘Psycho’ first came out, one of the London critics called it a blot on an honorable career. And Time magazine panned it so badly that I was surprised, a year later, to find them referring to someone else’s thriller as being ‘in the classic “Psycho” tradition.
Here’s the full interview.