Ernst Lubitsch
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"Ernst Lubitsch" was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".

In 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. He was also nominated three times for Academy Award for Best Director/Best Director.

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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

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I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

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

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I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

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

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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

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