John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s, and subject of the book "Writing with Hitchcock" by Steven DeRosa.

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    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.
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    Bill McKay: I thought the point was to say what I wanted.
    Lucas: Well, it is. But in the right way, and at the right time.
    Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter, and Michael Ritchie. Bill McKay (Robert Redford)

    The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)