American - Writer | February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
Ben Hecht
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The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
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Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
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