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"The French have been very kind to me...

...and they attribute an awful lot of things to me that I had no thought of. 'Why did you do this?' Well, 'cause I liked it. I thought it was funny."

"During the making of "The Big Sleep" I found out for the first time that you don't need to be too logical, you just paint good scenes. Faulkner and Leigh Brackett, whom I hired because she wrote like a man, I thought when I was hiring her, with the name Leigh, she was a man, and in walked a very fresh-looking girl who wrote like a man. Put the two together and they did a whole script in eight days. And they said they didn't want to change things. They said the stuff was so good there's no sense in making it logical."

Howard Hawks,

from "The Men Who Made The Movies: Howard Hawks"

MARLOWE:

Here you are sugar, buy yourself a cigar.

LADY CABBIE:

If you can use me again sometime, call this number.

(She hands him a card.)

MARLOWE:

Day and night?

LADY CABBIE:

Uh, night's better. I work during the day.

-- from the screenplay for "The Big Sleep," by Willliam Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman, as directed by Howard Hawks


"Now, some writers would react to their work being swiped by getting angry. [Ray] Bradbury, however, decided to play it a different way, by sending the following brilliant letter to [William] Gaines in 1952:

	"Just a note to remind you of an oversight. You have not as yet sent on the check for $50.00 to cover the use of secondary rights on my two stories THE ROCKET MAN and KALEIDOSCOPE…I feel this was probably overlooked in the general confusion of office work, and look forward to your payment in the near future."

"Gaines was no fool - he quickly sent the money, along with a cordial response, and pretty soon, Bradbury was authorizing EC Comics to do OFFICIAL adaptations of his stories, and that became a draw for their science fiction titles, so long as they lasted." from Comics Should Be Good