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Billy Wilder

"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Billy Wilder
"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"

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Billy Wilder
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

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Billy Wilder
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."

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Billy Wilder
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

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Billy Wilder
"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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Billy Wilder
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."

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Billy Wilder
"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful."

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Billy Wilder
"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."

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Billy Wilder
"I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel."

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Billy Wilder
"I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes."

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