Credit you give yourself is not 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.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

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

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.