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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.

Billy Wilder

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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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
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
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
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
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.

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