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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.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

Funny History Luck
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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Cutting Finals Nine
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
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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
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.
BILLY WILDER

Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
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
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.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
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.
BILLY WILDER

Deserve Fight Important Writer
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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

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