John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayeswas an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 May 1919
CountryUnited States of America
mother running fun
Frances Stevens: Mother, this is why I've had to spend half my life running around the world after youto keep men like this away from you. Mrs. Stevens: Well after this, let me run my own interference. It looks like the blockers are having all the fun.
caused human race trouble
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
change outside people
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
men long focus
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.
honesty cat missing
Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.
running drinking oklahoma
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
race people house
Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
song inspiration writing
Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.