John Michael Hayes

“We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.”

“Hitchcock and I had a very good relationship... For four pictures, it was a very close, good relationship.”

“A man's got to be a man, a woman a woman. That's the way it is.”

“A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.”

“You don't tell a woman you're going to kill her. You just do it.”

“Even in this light, you're still the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.”

“Writing is a lonely job. Even with a partner, it's a lonely job.”

“People do a lot of things in private they couldn't possibly explain in public.”

“She's too perfect. She's too talented. She's too beautiful. She's too sophisticated. She's too everything but what I want.”

“I was the highest-paid writer at Paramount.”

“I'd just like to say a word for my partner, Grace Kelly. Without her, we wouldn’t have a picture.”

“When they're in trouble, it's always their mother.”