“The point of view that words should be minimized in movies is just ridiculous! The technical aspects are not important. It’s the words, it always gets back to the words. The people who suffered the highest percentage of failure were novelists and short story writers. Because, in their form of choice, if they came to a scene that was tough they had dots. So they’d write, ‘There was a terrible quarrel.’ Dot, dot, dot. In a screenplay, you have to put down the words in the quarrel.”

– Julius Epstein (Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Fanny)