Darryl F. Zanuck

“If two men on a job agree all the time, one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”

“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

“The public is never wrong.”

“Don't say 'yes' until I finish talking!”

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

“We are not in the business of making art; we are in the business of making money.”

“That's the trouble with this business. You have to have the heart of a poet and the skin of a rhinoceros.”

“My father was a night clerk in a hotel in a small town in Nebraska. I was a boy, and I would sleep on a mattress in the office.”