I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow j….

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person..

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd fi….

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together..

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this ….

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It….

If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get re….

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should b….

The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think wha….

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's….

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this perso….

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible..

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star..

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they wo….

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was s….

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we wo….

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, ….

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful..

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should b….

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon..

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most..