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Well, nobody’s perfect.

Billy Wilder

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
BILLY WILDER

Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
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
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
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
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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 only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck

Well, nobody’s perfect.

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