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The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.

Ben Hecht

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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Eruption Mind People
I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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Mad Secret World
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It’s just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
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Castle Views Writing
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Opinions People Political Sex
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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Directors Men Movie
For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
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Effort Games Years
Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.
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Product Seventies Waste
Love is a hole in the heart.
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Heart Holes Love
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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Humorous Moving Time
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them.
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Intellectual People Writing
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
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Deceit Desire Lying
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
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Art Mass World
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
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Age Dark Mind
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.
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Blessing Money People
As an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Country Cultured Mind People
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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Differences Fifty Men

The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it’s a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it’s a flop.

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