Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

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The Screenwriters –

Each of these quotes are from authors who have written or adapted original screenplays or properties.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. – Raymond Chandler

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn’t her youth he is seeking but his own. – Lenore Coffee

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen. – Elinor Glyn

A screenwriter is a man who is being tortured to confess and has nothing to confess. – Christopher Isherwood

A movie star is a creation that, like a painting or a statue or a symphony, does not age. – Garson Kanin

The films take our best ideas. We work like slaves, inventing, devising, changing, to please the morons who run this game. We spend endless hours in search of novel ideas, and, in the end, what do we get for it? A lousy fortune. – Alexander King

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but marry brunettes. – Anita Loos

The Hollywood version of the Twenty-third Psalm is “My pool runneth over.” – Harry Kurnitz