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Patricia Highsmith

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

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

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"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."
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"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."
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"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."
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"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."
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