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Preston Sturges

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When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.


— Preston Sturges


#writing #life

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.


— Preston Sturges


#life

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.


— Preston Sturges


#life

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.


— Preston Sturges


#film #world #education

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.


— Preston Sturges


#did #directing #director #had #harder

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.


— Preston Sturges


#cards #fault #go #handing #next

I suppose they're like the I.R.S. You move once and they never send you your refund check.


— Preston Sturges


#i #like #move #never #once






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Sturges said "It's taken me eight years to reach what I wanted. So I left. That the invariable fairy godfather of each picture is not only expressive of his own cold-blooded cynicism but of typical Hollywood fantasy is an example of how this works.

See for example the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty or the way an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives. Preston Sturges (August 29 1898 – August 6 1959) originally Edmund Preston Biden was an American playwright screenwriter and film director born in Chicago Illinois. W.

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