A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
BEN HECHTThere’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.
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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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There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
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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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I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
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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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A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
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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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Love is a hole in the heart.
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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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The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
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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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That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
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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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Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language.
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Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.
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