Cecil B. DeMille

“As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.”

“Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.”

“I win my awards at the box office.”

“Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.”

“It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.”

“Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.”

“The public is always right.”

“What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.”

“Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.”

“There can be no liberty without the law.”

“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.”

“Creation is a drug I can't do without.”