Quotes by Hecht, Ben

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their >>

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better t >>

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows >>

Quotations about Cinema

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. >>

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially w >>

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unrea >>

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.

Hecht, Ben