In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Quote by Ben Hecht

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There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do...

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow...

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep...

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's...

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's...

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife...

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife...