Where Every Cockroach has a Screenplay

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. – Thornton Wilder

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov

A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. – Raymond Chandler (about L.A.)

L.A.: where there’s never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that’s never taken. The city of angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It’s that kind of town. _ Ian Shoales

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. – Stephen Leacock

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. – George Bernard Shaw

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money, for instance. – Henri De Regnier

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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