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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.

Billy Wilder

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
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
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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 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
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
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
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.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
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

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