The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, p. 69

You can't make good pictures without good screenplays, and you can't get good screenplays from people who do not know how to write them, technically speaking, but have been debauched and spoiled by Hollywood to such an extent that technique is all they have left. Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered pot holder.

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go, 77

This is not an age of reason or tolerance, but in Hollywood you don't learn to be a hero. You learn to be expedient--or you get to hell out. - Chandler