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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?

Billy Wilder

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
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
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
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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
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
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie

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