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

Billy Wilder

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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World
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
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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
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
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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie

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