Dudley Nichols Quotes
Fear is the highest fence.
Citations
Nichols, Dudley. "The Writer and the Film." Twenty Best Film Plays, edited by John Gassner and Dudley Nichols, Crown Publishers, 1943.
Related Quotes
See Thoreau {623573} and FDR {636844} for similar sentiments.
The President later addressed this in his "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speech – See {636844}.
Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.