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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

Billy Wilder

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
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
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
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
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Bored Category Moved People
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants

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