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

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.

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.

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

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