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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

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
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
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
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
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 just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
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, 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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
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

Art Looks Television
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done

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