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

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.

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.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

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.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.