Steven Bingen > Quotes

“Under the moon, the backlot was 30 acres of fairyland—not because the locations really looked like African jungles and French châteaux and schooners at anchor and Broadway by night, but because they looked like the torn picture books of childhood, like fragments of stories dancing in an open fire. I never lived in a house with an attic, but a backlot must be something like that, and at night of course in an enchanted distorted way, it all comes true. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Love of the Last Tycoon”
― Steven Bingen, MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot

“Thalberg believed that “credit you give yourself isn’t worth having.”
― Steven Bingen, MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot