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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. "
Contact
Me
Years
" For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. "
Life
Nature
Justice
" I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. "
Someone
Woman
House
" I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. "
Hang
Around
Seen
" I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it. "
Like
I Feel Like
Alarm
" I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife. "
Men
Good
Wife
" 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. "
Mine
Want
Work
" I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. "
Find
Boring
Public
" If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. "
Know
Writing
Will
" I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. "
Hated
Things
Turn
" 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. "
Dream
Want
Telephone
" I have no television - I hate it. "
Hate
Television
" 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
New York
Way
" I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. "
Days
Like
Week
" I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. "
Car Accident
Only
Know
" I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. "
Live
Movies
Quiet
" I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. "
Think
Speeches
Correct
" 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. "
Me
California
New York
" My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. "
People
Better
Speak
" Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. "
Married
Feet
Ground
" Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. "
Mother
Excellent
He
" Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. "
Rotten
World
Film
" 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. "
Me
Fool
Book
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