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Billy Wilder

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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
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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Cutting Finals Nine
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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Always People Think Thinking
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done

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