Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

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

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.

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.

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.