Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

Great men should not have great faults.

Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.