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

Billy Wilder

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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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Daughter Father Thinking
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
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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