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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."

"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."

"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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