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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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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
"The truth always reveals itself."
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What they [critics] call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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To his lighting cameraman:
Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
June 22, 1906
Died:
March 27, 2002
(aged 95)
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