I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom … - Ben Hecht

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Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

Ben Hecht

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

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Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

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