Quote by Raymond Chandler
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at al

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

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The moment a man begins to talk about technique thats proof that he is fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. – Raymond Chandler

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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. – Raymond Chandler

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The average Hollywood film stars ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. – Katharine Hepburn

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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. – Nelson Algren

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You write a book like that youre fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, its like pissing in your fathers beer. – Ernest Hemingway

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If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple. – Bernardo Bertolucci

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