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

Billy Wilder

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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Art Looks Television
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
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Interesting Mean Men
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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 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

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