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

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.

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.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.