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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.

Billy Wilder

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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League Little Understand Really Something
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hiding Plot Subtle
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic

I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.

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