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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Billy Wilder

The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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.
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First Firsts Own Unlikely
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
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
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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
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
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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

I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

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