Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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.
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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.