“I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies—as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.”

—  Ben Hecht

from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959

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