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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Billy Wilder

I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
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, 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
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

Country Hollywood Killing People
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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
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.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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Hit House Morning Rain Writing
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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.
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Daughter Father Thinking
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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

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