'Hitchcock's' triple play

The original title of director Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock" was "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," the name of Stephen Rebello's book on which the film is based. Anthony Hopkins, who plays the famed filmmaker in the movie, thought the longer name was a terrible idea, sounding more like a symposium than a film — "I said to Sacha, 'That's a doomed title," Hopkins said — and eventually Gervasi shared his actor's opinion.

John Horn, Los Angeles Times

December 13, 2012