Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.