The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
BEN HECHTI discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
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They’re a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time – and they’re phonies, all of them. And I head the list…their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent.
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
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I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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