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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.

Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
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
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
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
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
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree

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