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.

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

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

There's nothing as real as money.

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

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.

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