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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 just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER

Always People Think Thinking
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’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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
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
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.
BILLY WILDER

Able Actors Camera Writing
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
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 best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER

Bad Noses Smell

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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