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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.

Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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Animal Country Elephants
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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 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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Always People Think Thinking
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 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
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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