“Unnamed director: [The script is] too caustic.
Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.”

— Samuel Goldwyn

Quoted by Alva Johnston in The Great Goldwyn http://books.google.com/books?id=xU9AAAAAIAAJ&q=%22too+caustic%22+%22To+hell+with+the+cost%22+%22If+it's+a+good+picture+we'll+make+it%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage (1937)

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