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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Billy Wilder

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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
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
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation

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