John Michael Hayes

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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