Patricia Highsmith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.”

“I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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