I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

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.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

I have no television - I hate it.

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

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

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

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

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

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.

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 only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I see each project as an opportunity to grow as a person and as an actor.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

Being single doesnt make you weak it means that you are strong enough to be on your own Being alone could be a good thing because there is no drama involved in your life no pain and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who arent even worth fighting for you are worth more than that.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.