I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

We did it this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we'd never finished.

Thank you of course to Miss Hepburn. The longevity of her career I think is inspiring to everyone. But most importantly and on behalf of everyone I know in The…