“I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better t...” — Ben Hecht Quote

“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.”

“In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”

“There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.”

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

“Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.”

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

“I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.”

“It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.”

“Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.”

“We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.”

“The future belongs to God.”