Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Stan Johnson: First Assistant Director

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Quotes 

• First assistant director : [about Norma Desmond]  She must be a million years old.

  Cecil B. DeMille : I hate to think where that puts me. I could be her father.

• Cecil B. DeMille : You didn't know Norma Desmond as a lovely little girl of 17 - with more courage and wit and *heart*, that ever came together in one youngster.

  First assistant director : I understand she was a terror to work with.

  Cecil B. DeMille : Only toward the end. You know, a dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

• [after hearing that Norma Desmond has come to see DeMille] 

  First assistant director : I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room. I can give her the brush.

  Cecil B. DeMille : Thirty million fans have given her the brush. Isn't that enough?