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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Billy Wilder

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
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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
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
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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Cutting Finals Nine
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
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
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

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