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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Billy Wilder

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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 just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
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 best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Bored Category Moved People
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real 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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety

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