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

Billy Wilder

God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
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
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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
I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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