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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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Daughter Father Thinking
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
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
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
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.
BILLY WILDER

Hit House Morning Rain Writing

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

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