Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.