"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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Source : "The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s". Book by Axel Madsen, 1975.

Billy Wilder

#Writing Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation.”
“No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.”
“When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.”
“When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.”
“The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.”

Source : "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.
“How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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