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Nobody works alone and by himself to make a picture! It's a matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician, actors and the writer.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:36:47 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- And here he is, the man who's name you'll see on the screen before the picture starts.

- One of Hollywood's greatest picture writers: James Seymour!

- Thanks, I've been a movie writer for ten years, that's the first kind word anybody's ever said to me!

- Listen, the average person thinks that a movie writer is a fella who sits by himself at a typewriter, hammers out a lot of dialogue and hands it in.

- Would you like to correct that impression?

- I certainly would.

- Nobody works alone and by himself to make a picture! It's a matter of constant cooperation between producer, director, technician, actors and the writer.

- Some of the best story ideas come out of the conferences.

- How many writers would you say there are on an average picture?

- Plenty!

- Believe it or not, I've seen pictures where there were more writers than actors.

- If all the people who've contributed to the story got screen credit, it would look like a page from the telephone directory!

- You've written for both the stage and screen. Tell the folks how they're different.

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The Thin Man (1936) Sound Clip

The Thin ManFunny quotes with sound clips from The Thin Man - radio drama based on Dashiell Hammett's book, first broadcast on Thursday August 06, 1936 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: William Powell (Nick), Myrna Loy (Nora), Porter Hall (Macauley), Minna Gombel (Mimi), Dorothy (Barbara Luddy), William Henry (Gilbert)

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