"Tea with Hitchcok"

I read an artical about this master of suspense - Hitchcock titled as "Tea with Hitchcock". The story behind this interesting title is: "Hitchcock liked to have tea with his family and frequent collaborators in the garden with their dogs. They could have tea for a few hours by themselves, because he always felt it was a wonderful way to talk about everything, over food." When I read these lines, I was wondering what is the myth with tea or food that can make people talk for hours. That also reminds me that Japanese take tea time so seriously, that they will rinse their hands and mouth meaning purifying themselves before they enter a tea house. What is so special with tea in Japan? Another story about tea takes place in the South of China, where people would spend a half or a whole day to have 'morning tea' with their friends, although, during their 'morning tea' time, they do not just drink tea but also eat various snackers. But anyway, this activity is surely more than just drinking and eating. How come drinking and eating become such an identified cultural phenomenon?

"I have always been uncommonly unattractive. Worse yet, I have always known it. The feeling has been with me so long, I can't imagine what it would be like not to feel that way... Until I met Alma. I never understood what women wanted. I only knew it wasn't me." It struck me that how much pains Hitchcock's looking had brought to him. He must have gone through some very unhappy times. Fortunately, this special experience constructively turned him into a very creative person. "Actually he said that in a way his looks were a help to him because if he would have been good looking, maybe he wouldn't have devleoped his artistic interests. He might have found somebody before Alma and made some terrible mistake in life, so he felt that he owed a lot to the way he looked. he said he didn't feel inside like the person he looked like on the outside, and that looking in mirrors remained throughout his life a little bit of a shock." "As a very young man he was happy to go and sit at a table at his favorite restaurant alone. It didn't bother him because he was an interior person who could amuse himself with his own thoughts..." I was amazed how a person's outside looking can so greatly shape a person's inside personality.

"Romantic obsession has always obsessed me," Hitchcock said,"Obsessions of all kinds are interesting, but for me, romantic obsession is the most fascinating". I believe great masters all grow some kinds of obsession!