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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

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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
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
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
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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Art Looks Television
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
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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