Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht /ˈhɛkt/was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 February 1894
CountryUnited States of America
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
sports brain hollywood
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
men stupidest connected
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
sex political-opinions people
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
time humorous moving
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
girl children writing
The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.
writing views castles
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
christian art war
H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
mad secret world
I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.
writing people intellectual
The 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.
fake-people men thinking
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
time business reading
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
love valentines-day men
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
valentines-day dream agony
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.