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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.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER

Make Obvious Subtlety
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
BILLY WILDER

Hate People Return Screen
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDER

Bastard Legitimate Make Money
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER

Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER

Bad Noses Smell
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
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.
BILLY WILDER

Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
BILLY WILDER

Daughter Father Thinking
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.
BILLY WILDER

Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDER

Best Things Done
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
BILLY WILDER

Bored Category Moved People
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDER

Cutting Finals Nine
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.
BILLY WILDER

Keep Manufacture Original Trying

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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