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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.

Billy Wilder

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
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
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
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 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
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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League Little Understand Really Something
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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’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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