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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

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
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
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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 never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
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

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