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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.

Billy Wilder

After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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
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
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
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
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
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
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
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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League Little Understand Really Something
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly

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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