Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. – Ben Hecht
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owners mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. – Ben Hecht
Im a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. – Ben Hecht
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. – Raymond Chandler