Dudley Nichols(1895-1960)

First artist to refuse the Oscar when he won Best Screenplay for O Delator (1935).

It is the writer who is the dreamer, the imaginer, the shaper. He works in loneliness with nebulous materials, with nothing more tangible than paper and a pot of ink; and his theatre is within his mind. He must generate phantoms out of himself and live with them until they take on a life of their own and become, not types, but characters working out their own destinies.