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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

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

Fall Money Paper Travel
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER

Believe People World
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
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
BILLY WILDER

First Firsts Own Unlikely

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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