People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
BEN HECHTLove is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.
More Ben Hecht Quotes
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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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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 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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Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you’re in over your head.
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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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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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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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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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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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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 know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
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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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I’ll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
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There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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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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