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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.

Billy Wilder

Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDER

Bastard Legitimate Make Money
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
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.
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Art Looks Television
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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.
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Deserve Fight Important Writer
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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Keep Manufacture Original Trying
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
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
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
BILLY WILDER

First Firsts Own Unlikely
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing

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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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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