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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.

Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
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
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
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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Art Looks Television
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
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
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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

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