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

Billy Wilder

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.
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Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDER

English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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Fabulous Mean Towns
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
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 had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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 there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDER

Hate Seriously Taken
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
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
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER

Great Year Hollywood Films Movie

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

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