In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Hollywood makes prostitutes out of women and sissies out of men.

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.