Philip Dunne

“A screenplay is a blueprint for a film, but it's not the film itself.”

“In Hollywood, you can be forgotten in the time it takes to draw a breath.”

“The secret to a long life in Hollywood is to outlive your enemies.”

“What is a writer but a schmuck with an Underwood?”

“The writer has a moral responsibility to be a critic of his society, to be a dissident.”

“I always hated the word 'message.' It's a word for Western Union. I was more interested in the content of a picture. The theme. The idea.”

“We had a sense of social responsibility. We believed that movies could and should say something about the world we lived in.”

“The blacklist was a terrible time. It was a time of fear and paranoia, and it destroyed a lot of lives.”

“I never thought of myself as an artist. I thought of myself as a craftsman.”

“The only thing that really matters in a movie is the story. If you have a good story, you can make a good movie.”