Irving Thalberg famous quotes

04-17-2025

If it isnâ€™t for the writing, weâ€™ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Writing #People #Important
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Giving #Credit
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

#Looks #Stories
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Writing
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Looks #Stories
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Talking #Fads #Novelty
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

#Giving #Needs #Credit
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Art #People #Interest
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

#Writing #Knowing #People
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.
-- Irving Thalberg

#Compliments You #Pay #Compliment
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

#Past #Play #Path

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