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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

If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring 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
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Bored Category Moved People
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
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World

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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