20 Myths and Truths About Alfred Hitchcock

TRUTH: Hitchcock expressed an extraordinary disgust with eggs in a 1963 interview with journalist Oriana Fallaci, describing their shape, whiteness, and especially broken yellow yolks as revolting. The anecdote is often upgraded online into a diagnosed medical condition called ovophobia, which is harder to establish. What is documented is his own vivid aversion. Appropriately for Hitchcock, even breakfast became macabre material. He reportedly contrasted yolk unfavorably with blood, which he considered visually much more attractive.