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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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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."
"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."
"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
"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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