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Everything human is alien to me.
I have no television - I hate it.
How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.
I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.