I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies—as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.


Excerpts: on movies and writers - from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959

Ben Hecht Quotes

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of...

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of...

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of...

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of...