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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

Billy Wilder

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
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
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
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
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
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
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

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