Irving Thalberg Quotes

#1. Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

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#2. No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

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#3. Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

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#4. Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

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#5. Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

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#6. Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

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#7. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

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#8. The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

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#9. The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer ... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.

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#10. A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

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#11. If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

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