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

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."

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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."

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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

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"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."

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"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

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"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."

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

Movies

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

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"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."

Mistake

"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."

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

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