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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

Billy Wilder

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Bored Category Moved People
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Interesting Mean Men
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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.
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League Little Understand Really Something
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational

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