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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Billy Wilder

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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
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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
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
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
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done

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