Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.

The street is noisy and the men and women are not perfect in the technique of their expression as the statues are. They are ugly and imperfect, incomplete even…

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored - it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil…

The instinct which creates the arts is not the same as that which produces art. The creative instinct is, in its final analysis and in its simplest terms, an e…

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to f…

But seriously, and I'm not making a joke: was the ending happy or sad?