“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.”
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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.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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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.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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