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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."
"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
"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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