The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

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

I have no television - I hate it.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

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