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.
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't 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.