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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

Billy Wilder

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
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
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.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck

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