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

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

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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."

Rights

"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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