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I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

Billy Wilder

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
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
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
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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
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
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
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
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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Able Actors Camera Writing

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