Dore Schary

“I was against the blacklist. It was a stupid, evil thing.”

“There's nothing wrong with the movies that a good script can't cure.”

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.”

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

“Every man has the right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

“A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.”

“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an ignorant pig, but a thousand people weeping in the dark—that is a reality.”

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

“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

“We are what we are because of what we have been.”