American - Novelist | January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith
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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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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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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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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 hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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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 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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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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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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