In Hitchcock`s eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
I`ve always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they`d just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don`t need America or someone else to help.
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.