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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

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
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
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?
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Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
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
[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
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Dream Good Inspiration Morning
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Hate Seriously Taken
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.
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Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
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
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Enough Hundred One
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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

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