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Billy Wilder

You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
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
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hiding Plot Subtle
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
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
[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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Great Year Hollywood Films Movie

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