Arriving in America

Daniel Libeskind on one of the all-time great movies, from the greatest of all directors:

The first experiences are always the most memorable because they cleave the mind unalterably and most powerfully. I came by boat as a teenage immigrant to America, and a few days after I arrived in New York I was taken by my father to Radio City Music Hall. On the largest screen in the US I saw Hitchcock's North by Northwest. It is cemented in my imagination. Seeing people climb on George Washington's nose and hang from the eyebrows of Teddy Roosevelt formed my eternal image of America, with all of its grandeur and illusion. Alfred Hitchcock captured me and took me on a journey into the adventure and unimaginable beauty of the sublime American continent.