[Ads-l] Alfred Hitchcock Quotation

[Shapiro, Fred]

Alfred Hitchcock is credited with the quotation "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."  Can anyone point me to any pre-1980 evidence of Hitchcock, or anyone else, uttering or writing this?


Fred Shapiro

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