Dudley Nichols

“The whole secret of the movie is the fact that you are using a new medium of telling a story.”

“To be a good screenwriter a man must be a good dramatist, and there are not many of those.”

“To accept it would be to turn my back on nearly a thousand members of the Screen Writers Guild.”

“The best way to write for the screen is to write for it directly.”

“As a writer, I feel that it is my duty to join with my fellow writers in their union to protest against the encroachment of the producers on our rights and our freedom of expression.”

“Drama is conflict. All literature is conflict. Without conflict, you have no action; without action, you have no character; without character, you have no story; and without a story, you have no screenplay.”

“A motion picture is a progressive series of related emotions in a spectator.”

“Any good writer can write a good screen-play if he is willing to learn the new medium.”

“I am a writer and I am proud of it.”