List of Ben Hecht Quotes

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Ben Hecht
Total Quotes 54
Chicago is a sort of journalistic yellowstone park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
Yellowstone Offering Chicago
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
Art Fall Writing
I discovered early in my movie work that a movies 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.
Movie Men Directors
Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. one false move and you're in over your head.
Moving Fate People
For many years hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Years Games Effort
I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. these producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as australia produced wingless birds. they wrote without pencils or even words. using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.
Australia Bird Kind
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the good book.
Bible Book League
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
Summer Love Life June
In the court of the movie owner, none criticized, none doubted. and none dared speak of art. in the owner's 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.
Movie Art Adventure
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where i hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
Hair Television Lasts
H.l.mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of american democracy, the christian religion, and the ymca. he was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
Christian Art War
People's sex habits are as well known in hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Sex Political Opinions People
  • Born: February 28, 1894
  • Died: April 18, 1964
  • Occupation: Screenwriter
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