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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

I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
BILLY WILDER

Hate People Return Screen
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
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?
BILLY WILDER

Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
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
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER

Eggs Funny Twenties
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.
BILLY WILDER

Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDER

Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Church Nylon Religion
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDER

English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
BILLY WILDER

Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

Funny History Luck
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Men Perfect Wells
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDER

Best Things Done

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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