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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.

Billy Wilder

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDER

Cutting Finals Nine
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
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Gender Nobody Perfect Well
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
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
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
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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Interesting Mean Men
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Action Character Lines
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

Country Hollywood Killing People
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.
BILLY WILDER

Fabulous Mean 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
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
BILLY WILDER

Able Actors Camera Writing
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.
BILLY WILDER

Class Girl Real Somebody Stars

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