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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

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
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
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 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
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck

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