Musts, Maybes, and Nevers Quotes

“United Artists had now begun a descent from the magical precedent-setting era of its rebirth in 1951 when Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin acquired the company from Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, to the sad-but-true cliché of a “Hollywood” operation typified by Mike Medavoy’s deceit.”
― David V. Picker, Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About The Movies

“The major challenge was Navin Johnson’s mansion, which he bought when the Opti-Grab glasses made him rich, and did we get lucky. In the heart of Beverly Hills on Sunset Boulevard, just down the road from the Beverly Hills Hotel, was a fully furnished, decorated, enormous, gigantic, outrageous estate owned by an Arab potentate. No one had ever slept in it, not even for one night.”
― David V. Picker, Musts, Maybes, and Nevers

“As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, “Don’t they realize they’re paying us for doing something we’d be thrilled to do for nothing?”
― David V. Picker, Musts, Maybes, and Nevers