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

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

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.

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.

[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.

There's nothing as real as money.