10 Movie Directors Who Cast Actors As Cinematic Versions Of Themselves
1. Alfred Hitchcock Was A Voyeur
As mentioned at the start, Alfred Hitchcock became such a part of his films that trailers for his latest picture would be as much of an attraction as the film itself.
His cameos became in-jokes, but like his protege Brian De Palma, his interest in voyeurism played a major role in most of his works.
Most notably, Jimmy Stewart's wheelchair-bound photographer gets off on spying on his neighbours while he's laid-up. But from Stewart to Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates spying on a woman as she showers, his own personal peep show was on display for all to see.
He was also one of the earliest mainstream directors to buck up against the censorship system, finding loopholes in the Hays code to show exactly what he wanted to see.
Had he lived longer, his films would have likely had the violence and nudity that De Palma was capable of including.
We live in closed-off houses and apartments with drapes covering our windows - who doesn't really want a look inside? It's a challenging question to answer, and it takes someone with Hitch's bravery to force an answer out of every last one of us.