“I'll tell you about those men. They were monsters and pirates and bastards right down to the bottom of their feet, but they loved movies. They loved making movies, they loved seeing movies and they protected the people who worked for them. Some of the jerks running the business now don't even have faces.”

Richard Brooks

“A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting”
Alan Ladd

“Tales of my toughness are exaggerated. I never killed an actor.”
John Huston

“I'm overpaid, over-stimulated, over-hyped, over-age, but I am the only person in our business who'll admit it.”
Joel Schumacher

“[Hollywood] is filled with people who make adventure pictures and who have never left this place... religious pictures and they haven't been in a church or synagogue for years... pictures about love and they have never been in love — ever.”
Richard Brooks