I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tues...day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his p...raise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they ...can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and ... if they had been any better, I should not hav...e come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's ...beer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing ...about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sam Goldwyn said, "How'm I gonna do decent pictures when all my good writers are in jail?" Then he added, the infallible Goldwyn, ..."Don't misunderstand me, they all ought to be hung." Mr. Goldwyn didn't know about "hanged." That's all there is to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »