Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

- Ben Hecht

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

- Ben Hecht

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been en…

- Ben Hecht

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. Th…

- Ben Hecht

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

- Ben Hecht

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was alw…

- Ben Hecht

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.

- Ben Hecht

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the wor…

- Ben Hecht

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

- Ben Hecht