For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

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.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.