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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

Billy Wilder

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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Interesting Mean Men
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
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
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
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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Cutting Finals Nine
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
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
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic

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