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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.

Billy Wilder

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
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
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
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
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hiding Plot Subtle
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
[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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER

Believe People World

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.

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