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

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

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.

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

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