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.

Quote by Ben Hecht

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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...

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.

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

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

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

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

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

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...

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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...

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my...

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my...

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...

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...

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

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...

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...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

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...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members...

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what...

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what...