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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Billy Wilder

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
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
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 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
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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Daughter Father Thinking
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
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
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

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