The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht Copy Share
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. — Ben Hecht Copy Share
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.” — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here… — Ben Hecht Copy Share
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. — Ben Hecht Copy Share
