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.
BEN HECHTThe honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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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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I have written a raucous valentine to a poet’s dream and agony.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
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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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I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops.
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The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him.
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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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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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Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That’s New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then – the alley.
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A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
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