He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. Ben Hecht American Writer More Ben Hecht Quotes 0
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. Ben Hecht American Writer More Ben Hecht Quotes 0
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language. Ben Hecht American Writer More Ben Hecht Quotes 0
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. Ben Hecht American Writer More Ben Hecht Quotes 0
I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with what the families have gone through. Ben Hecht American Writer More Ben Hecht Quotes 0