The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.