Ben Hecht

“Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”

“There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.”

“Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.”

“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.”

“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”

“People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.”

“The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.”

“Love is a hole in the heart.”