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.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.