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

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.

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.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.