Sidney Buchman Quotes

United States, Writer
March 27, 1902 – August, 23, 1975.

Sidney Robert Buchman was an American screenwriter and producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He received four Oscar nominations and won once for Best Screenplay for fantasy romantic comedy film Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) along with Seton I. Miller.

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

Sidney Buchman
- Money
- Value
- Precept
Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro's true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.

Sidney Buchman

Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.

Sidney Buchman
- People
- Problem
- Democracy
It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.

Sidney Buchman
- American
- Citizens
- Inform
I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

Sidney Buchman
Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

Sidney Buchman
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Sidney Buchman
- Life
- Explore
- Mystery
I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Sidney Buchman
- Earth
- Dope
- Inherit

If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.

Sidney Buchman
I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.

Sidney Buchman
- Country
- Changes
- Seen