Quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.

You have all the scenes. Just go home and word it in.

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.