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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

[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
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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
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
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
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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
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
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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Always People Think Thinking
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly

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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