Janet Leigh

I am sorry.

I only felt... It seems she's hurting you.

I meant well.

Yes.

Sometimes just one time can be enough.

Well, actually, in the novel, it's only two pages.

But what Mr. Hitchcock explained is that he wasn't going to go into the entire history of this gentleman because it was just too much.

that he was going to concentrate on Mary and the discovery of Mary.

In other words, it would revolve around her.

So I knew it was going to be a short part.

I didn't know it would even be as long as it turned out to be, which was due to Mr. Stefano's take on it.

Because it was interesting to me that when I interviewed Mr. Stefano in regard to the book, he said that...

when he first met with Mr. Hitchcock, he had said, I really don't like Norman Bates very much.

I mean, he's an unattractive, you know, I mean, he's kind of, he's just not something I want to write about.

He said, but what interested me was that if you start the movie with the girl,

and get the audience into her life and her problems and her traumas and bring her then to Norman Bates, then, especially with Anthony Perkins playing Norman Bates, then you have...

lured the audience into a situation where they think it's going to be, oh yeah, well now there's two guys and which one is she going to go for?

And that's, you know, your typical kind of little wrapped in a blue ribbon package.

And of course then the

tragedy becomes even more shocking and um uh and of course Mr. Hitchcock immediately saw the value of this and Mr. Stefano said to me that he Hitch leaned over and there was this gleam in his eye and he said oh yes and we'll get a star to play her so that it would even be more of a of a shock