"Credit you give yourself is not worth having." Thalberg would not allow his name on his pictures; the one exception being "The Good Earth", posthumously. [Screenwriter Charles MacArthur, who was a close friend, commenting on why Thalberg never took a producer's credit on his films] "Entertainment is Thalberg's God. He's content to serve him without billing." [David O. Selznik believed that the success of M.G.M. was the result of the pairing of his close friend Thalberg with his father-in-law, studio Vice President Louis B. Mayer] "I don't think either one of them could have created it without the other. They were a great team." [On bringing in director George Hill to shoot additional night battle scenes for King Vidor's "The Big Parade" (1925)] "Movies aren't made, they're remade." "A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it."