The Fountainhead (film)

"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build!"

"Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people! Your own work, not any possible object of your charity. I'll be glad if men who need it find a better method of living in the house I built, but that's not the motive of my work, nor my reason, nor my reward! My reward, my purpose, my life, is the work itself - my work done my way! Nothing else matters to me!"

"A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!"

"[closing statements in his self-defense in the trial against him] Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. But he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid—but they won."

"I play the stock market of the spirit and I sell short."

"Artistic value is achieved collectively by each man subordinating himself to the standards of the majority."

"Dominique Francon: [to Roark] I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want that enslave us. I'm not easy to bring into submission."

"Henry Cameron: I told them that the form of a building must follow its function."

"Gail Wynand: [to Roark, regarding the Wynand Building] Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours - and could have been mine."

"Peter Keating: You can't hope to survive unless you learn how to compromise. Now, watch me! In just a few short years I'll shoot to the top of the architectural profession because I'm going to give the public what it wants."

"No Man Takes What's Mine!"

"Gary Cooper — Howard Roark"

"Patricia Neal — Dominique Francon"

"Raymond Massey — Gail Wynand"

"Kent Smith - Peter Keating"

"Robert Douglas - Ellsworth M. Toohey"

"Henry Hull - Henry Cameron"

"Ray Collins - Roger Enright"

"Moroni Olsen - Chairman"

"Jerome Cowan - Alvah Scarret"