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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 The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975)

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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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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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