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.

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.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.