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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Billy Wilder

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
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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
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
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
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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
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
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
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
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
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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Always People Think Thinking

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