skating to the edge of non-acceptance (29 August 2016)

Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea in Sullivan's Travels, (1941)

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

- Preston Sturges

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

- Preston Sturges

Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert in The Palm Beach Story, 1942

Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Sturges on the set of The Lady Eve, 1941

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

- Preston Sturges

Rex Harrison and Preston Sturges on set, Unfaithfully Yours, 1948