The Rule In The Art World Is:

There's One Thing That Keeps Surprising You About Stormy Old Friends After They Die - Their Silence.

The Movies Are One Of The Bad Habits That Corrupted Our Century.of Their Many Sins, I Offer As The Worst Their Effect On The Intellectual Side Of The Nation. It Is Chiefly From That Viewpoint I Write Of Them - As An Eruption Of Trash That Has Lamed The American Mind And Retarded Americans From Becoming A Cultured People.

I Discovered Early In My Movie Work That A Movies Never Any Better Than The Stupidest Man Connected With It. There Are Times When This Distinction May Be Given To The Writer Or Director. Most Often It Belongs To The Producer.

When You Overpay Small People You Frighten Them. They Know That Their Merits Or Activities Entitle Them To No Such Sums As They Are Receiving. As A Result Their Boss Soars Out Of Economic Into Magic Significance.

The Factors That Laid Low So Whooping And Puissant An Empire As The Old Hollywood Are Many. I Can Think Of A Score, Including The Barbarian Hordes Of Television. But There Is One That Stands Out For Me In The Post-mortem.... The Factor Had To Do With The Basis Of Movie-making: 'who Shall Be In Charge Of Telling The Story.'