Quotes About Ben Hecht

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

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

This is New York: skyscraper champion of the world where slickers and know-it-alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where the truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye. —BEN HECHT, Nothing Sacred, 1937

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

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.