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Well, nobody’s perfect.

Billy Wilder

[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
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
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
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Interesting Mean Men
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
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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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

Well, nobody’s perfect.

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