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

Billy Wilder

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
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Bad Noses Smell
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
[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
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
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
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.
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First Firsts Own Unlikely
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
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Directors Inspirational Motivational
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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Cutting Finals Nine
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Actors Doors Entering Situation
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
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing

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