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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
BILLY WILDER

Hiding Plot Subtle
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
BILLY WILDER

Fabulous Mean Towns
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.
BILLY WILDER

Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER

Always People Think Thinking
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDER

Hate Seriously Taken
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Church Nylon Religion
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.
BILLY WILDER

Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Gender Nobody Perfect Well
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
BILLY WILDER

Action Character Lines
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

Life Music Sarcastic
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDER

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

Believe People World
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.
BILLY WILDER

Daughter Father Thinking

I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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