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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDER

Directing Directors Film Sycophants
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

Fall Money Paper Travel
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER

Make Obvious Subtlety
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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