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Billy Wilder

I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER

Always People Think Thinking
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
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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Eggs Funny Twenties
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
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Funny History Luck
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
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
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Inspirational Motivational Movie
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
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Bastard Legitimate Make Money
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Country Happiness People Work
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’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic

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