In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
From Ben Hecht
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
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.
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.
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
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