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.

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.

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.

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.

Remember to live and learn to give.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows.

When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.