I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

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

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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

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

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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 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.

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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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