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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

Billy Wilder

If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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First Firsts Own Unlikely
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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Hit House Morning Rain Writing

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