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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
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.
BILLY WILDER

Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
God save me from myself.
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Catchy Save Me
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
BILLY WILDER

League Little Understand Really Something
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
BILLY WILDER

Bored Category Moved People
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
BILLY WILDER

Believe Thinking Years
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
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 something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER

Bad Noses Smell
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

Fall Money Paper Travel
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

Funny History Luck

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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