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

Billy Wilder

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.
BILLY WILDER

Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
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
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
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
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.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Men Perfect Wells
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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

Class Middle Normal People Restaurant

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

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