"The answer Hollywood figured out for this question was what doomed it. It figured out that writers were not to be in …"

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."

"The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type – as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer – an…"

"Most of my script-writing friends – I never had more than a handful—took eagerly to the bottle or the analyst’s couch…"

"I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These p…"

"When I come to put down their names, there weren't many. David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Walter Wanger…"

"Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. These were Underworld, The S…"

"They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep, and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, al…"

"Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, …"

"The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, i…"