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Walter Wanger

“This is the only industry that finances its own blackmail.” — Producer Walter Wanger on Hollywood’s gossip columnists.

“There isn’t another location in the world so consistently suited for producing motion pictures as Los Angeles. Being a director, I can […]

“I do not believe the great vogue of the stage star on the screen is going to last. I have never encouraged […]

“You know, most anybody can be nice, but you’ve got some work ahead of you to make everybody in the audience honestly hate […]

“I was looking for plays – fairly desperate because I could find nothing that suited me. I saw some of Miss Loos‘ […]

“Is directing a man’s work? – I shall say it is!….Oh, my dear, you can’t imagine the money I’ve spent this summer […]

“It was because directing seemed so utterly unsuited to a woman, that I refused the first company offered me. I don’t know […]

“The permanent photoplay of the future will be composed of these elements: A play written by a scenario writer, rather than a […]

“When I was assigned to make ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ with William Farnum as my star, I felt that last my […]

“In Paris, I wrote poetry, French poetry, very bad indeed. But friends assured me my center of song rested below my brain, […]