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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

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.
BILLY WILDER

Able Actors Camera Writing
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER

Always People Think Thinking
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
BILLY WILDER

Art Looks Television
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Firsts Real Writing
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDER

Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset

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