In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

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

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

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.