What were the artistic influences on what some critics have called Hitchcock's most personal film: Vertigo?
"The real reason was that I wanted to convey the dreams with great visual sharpness and clarity, sharper than the film itself. I wanted Dali because of the architectural sharpness of his work. Chirico has the same quality, you know, the long shadows, the infinity of distance and the converging lines of perspective." --Alfred Hitchcock, from his 1962 interview with François Truffaut
Hitchcock was a collector of modern art and his private collection included several