If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“You can live a long time in Hollywood and never see the part they use in pictures...” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart. He… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key]… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“I had been stalking the bluebottle fly for five minutes, waiting for him to sit down. He didn't want to sit down. He just… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the same. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
“The homicide skipper that year was a Captain Gregorius, a type of copper that is getting rarer but by no means extinct, the kind… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
