Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. … - Ernst Lubitsch

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No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

Ernst Lubitsch

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

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There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

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It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.

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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

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I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

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