[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world..

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script..

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago..

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the….

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it woul….

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary..

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic..

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get….

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years..

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, yo….

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't..

In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when ne….

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me..

There's nothing as real as money..

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture..