I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.