There's nothing as real as money.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.