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. (Ernst Lubitsch)

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.

Ernst Lubitsch

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