Hitchcock Denigrated American Films, Saying They Were

It Is To A Dramatist, Which Is To Say, To An Unfrocked Psychoanalyst, Stunning That That Which Has Sustained The Left In My Generation, Its Avatar, Its Prime Issue, Has Been Abortion. For, Whether Or Not It Is Regarded As A Woman's Right, An Unfortunate Necessity, Or Murder, Which Is To Say, Irrespective Of Differing And Legitimate Political Views, To Enshrine It As The Most Important Test Of The Liberal, Is, Mythologically, An Assertion To The Ultimate Right Of A Postreligious Paganism.

Writing A Novel Is An Incredibly Free Experience. One Puts One's Self In A Narrative Mode. You Can Go Off In Any Direction - The Past, The Future, Or Go Laterally, Or Include One's Own Beliefs. It's Total Freedom.

Being A Writer In Hollywood Is Like Going To Hitler's Eagle Nest With A Great Idea For A Bar Mitzvah.

I Look Back On My Liberal Political Beliefs With A Sort Of Wonder - As Another Exercise In Self-involvement - Rewarding Myself For Some Superiority I Could Not Logically Describe.

You Got An All-out Prize Fight, You Wait 'til The Fight's Over, One Guy's Left Standing And That's How You Know Who's Won.