Sunset Boulevard

"This town destroys people. It chews them up and spits them out."

"Money makes you want things you never needed before."

"I came here wanting to be a writer. Instead, I became a hack."

"Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

"You can't blame a man for wanting to eat."

"I had big dreams once. Now I'm just trying to survive until my next check."

"The only way to survive in this town is to understand the game and play it better than everyone else."

"We're all pretty broke these days."

"You don't know the first thing about pictures. You're not even a failed writer - you're a writer who was never meant to write."

"I'm writing a picture about a ball player. All-American type. Could be good."

"I understood that freedom was a luxury she could not afford."

"Some men are made for extraordinary circumstances."

"I loved her because she needed to be loved."

"The final scene is the only one that matters."

"I gave her everything and received only emptiness."

"One does not survive this world unscathed."

"I was devoted to a dream that could never be realized."

"Some bonds cannot be broken by circumstance or law."

"I chose the darkness because the light abandoned us."

"She was my obsession, my purpose, my damnation."

"I understood the cost of greatness."

"The world was too small for her ambitions."

"I was her anchor in madness."

"Some love stories end in tragedy by design."

"I would have done anything to keep her safe."

"Beauty and destruction dance together in Hollywood."

"I was the architect of her delusion."

"She needed to believe she was still the star."

"Some sacrifices define a life."

"I chose her over everything—sanity, morality, freedom."