How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

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

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.

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