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.

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.

If the love is true, it’s going to be with you

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

I wanted proof, not promises.

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

DIE in the past. Live in the future.

The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Clutter is the disease of American writing.