Zitat des Tages von Ben Hecht:
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
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 the producer.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Love is a hole in the heart.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
