from the Writer's Almanac (American Public Media: Garrison Keillor):
August 13 is the birthday of director Alfred Hitchcock, born in London (1899). His father was a greengrocer -- and a strict man. Once, when the five-year-old Alfred misbehaved, his father sent him to the police station and they locked him in a cell for a few minutes to teach him a lesson. Hitchcock was so terrified that he was afraid of the police for the rest of his life, and he rarely drove a car so that he could not be pulled over. Hitchcock directed great suspense and horror films, including Rebecca (1940), Notorious (1946), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).
He said: "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
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