Ben Hecht Quotes

Author Image

Ben Hecht

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 28, 1894

Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.

Ben Hecht

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

Ben Hecht

I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

Ben Hecht

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

Ben Hecht

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.

Ben Hecht

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Ben Hecht

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

Ben Hecht

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.

Ben Hecht