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.

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

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.

And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.