Novelist

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

I have no television - I hate it.

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.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

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.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

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.

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.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

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.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

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.