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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

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
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
BILLY WILDER

Actors Doors Entering Situation
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.
BILLY WILDER

Deserve Fight Important Writer
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDER

Directing Directors Film Sycophants
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.
BILLY WILDER

Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER

Believe People World

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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