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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

Billy Wilder

I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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Daughter Father Thinking
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hiding Plot Subtle
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
BILLY WILDER

League Little Understand Really Something

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