--- title: "2 Movie Better Quotes By Ben Hecht" description: "2 Movie Better quotes by Ben Hecht. Plus more from Ben Hecht and more Movie Better sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/ben-hecht-8979_connected_a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stu_1089079.png" --- > [A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stupidest-man-connected-with-it/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/ben-hecht-8979_connected_a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stu_1089079.png) > [I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/i-discovered-early-in-my-movie-work-that-a-movie-is-never-any-better/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/ben-hecht-8979_cinema_i-discovered-early-in-my-movie-work-that_1668817.png) ## More by Ben Hecht > [People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/people-s-sex-habits-are-as-well-known-in-hollywood-as-their-political/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/movies-are-one-of-the-bad-habits-that-have-corrupted-our-century-they/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/chicago-is-a-sort-of-journalistic-yellowstone-park-offering-haven-to/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/i-know-that-a-man-who-shows-me-his-wealth-is-like-the-beggar-who/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/listen-little-boy-in-this-business-there-s-only-one-law-you-gotta/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/there-s-only-one-law-you-gotta-follow-to-keep-outta-trouble-do-it/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/the-only-practical-way-yet-discovered-by-the-world-for-curing-its/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/since-my-boyhood-i-have-sought-always-to-please-but-out-of-a-kindness/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/was-asked-can-you-bring-six-million-jews-to-palestine-i-replied-no/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/i-noticed-early-that-pompous-people-have-actually-less-a-high-opinion/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/three-years-ago-the-white-hope-of-the-theatre-today-a-mug-that-s-new/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/television-excites-me-because-it-seems-to-be-the-last-stamping-ground/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/we-are-going-to-make-sure-that-there-is-high-speed-broadband/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/there-was-a-land-of-cavaliers-and-cotton-fields-called-the-old-south/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/out-of-the-seventy-movies-i-ve-written-some-ten-of-them-were-not/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movie-better/ben-hecht/#itemlist", "name": "2 Movie Better Quotes By Ben Hecht", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ben Hecht" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stupidest-man-connected-with-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/ben-hecht-8979_connected_a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stu_1089079.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/ben-hecht-8979_connected_a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stu_1089079.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78b/ben-hecht-8979_connected_a-movie-is-never-any-better-than-the-stu_1089079.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.” — Ben Hecht", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. 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