Patricia Highsmith

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

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

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

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.