A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. Ben Hecht More Quotes by Ben Hecht More Quotes From Ben Hecht There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion. Ben Hecht movies political nature religion In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians. Ben Hecht days politicians business life Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. Ben Hecht movies more half two 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 presence will men art The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface. Ben Hecht jews brought surface mass
