"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

"Modern dancing is old fashioned."

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive."

"The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead."

"I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."

"If I look confused it is because I am thinking."

"We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax."

"It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities."

"From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you."

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."

"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."

"God makes stars. I just produce them."

"We're overpaying him, but he's worth it."

"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."

"For your information, I would like to ask a question."

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."

"Please write music like Wagner, only louder."

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life."

"I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no.""

"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words."

"If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them."

"Television has raised writing to a new low."

"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

"Let's have some new cliches."

"Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."

"The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying."

"I never liked you, and I always will."

"Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway."

"Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting."

"Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?"

"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."

"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."

"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."