We will soon publish a special issue of Cahiers du Cinéma in homage to Alfred Hitchcock and we would like to include in it the interviews with him that were published in La Politique des auteurs[1] and originally appeared in issues 42 and 102 of our journal.

We ask you for the authorization to do so, as was done last year with the interview with Jean Renoir, which you were kind enough to allow us to reprint in a volume.

Hoping for a favorable response on your part, we are

[1] Published in Champ Libre in 1972.

As you will recall, we were wrong to permit you to publish a text that appeared in a work by Champ Libre.[1] This is why we have decided to give you no more authorizations.

[1] Unfortunately we know nothing of what happened in this instance.

(Published in Editions Champ Libre, Correspondance, Vol. 2, Editions Champ Libre, Paris, 1981. Translated from the French and footnoted by NOT BORED! August 2012.)