Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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.
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.
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.
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.
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.
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it. ?