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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Credit
Giving
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Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Compliment
Compliments You
Pay
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
War
Civil War
Forget
Picture
Louis
Civil
Nickel
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Fellows
Looks
Stories
Buys
Fellow
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Fads
Novelty
Talking
Welcome
Fad
Pictures
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What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
One Word
Writing
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Art
Movie
Actors
People
Art People Will
Eventually
Medium
So Many People
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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.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Credit
Giving
Needs
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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.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Fellows
Looks
Stories
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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.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Knowing
People
Writing
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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.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Important
Process
Realizing
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The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.
Irving Thalberg / Film Producer
Past
Path
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