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Irving Thalberg

Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, Camille, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth. His films carved out an international market, "projecting a seductive image of American life brimming with vitality and rooted in democracy and personal freedom," states biographer Roland Flamini.:3

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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

Art, Movie, People, Place

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

Credit, Give, Given, Giving, Needs, Screen

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Fad, Fads, Novelty, Talking, Welcome

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

Credit, Give, Giving, Having, Worth

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

Ahead, Established, Past, Play, Safe, Territory

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Buys, Fellow, Fellows, Looks, Stories, Story

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Bad, Fellow, Fellows, Good, Looks, Stories

The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer. . . and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

Important, Picture, Prevent, Process, Realizing

What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Business, One Word, Putting, Word, Writer, Writing

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

Hollywood, Knowing, People, Writers, Writing

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Compliment, Compliments, Compliments You, Having, Pay