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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
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 hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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Hate People Return Screen
Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Men Perfect Wells
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Directing Directors Film Sycophants
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
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
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Grandmother Kings Old Thinking Tree
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
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
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
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
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
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Life Music Sarcastic
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Best Things Done
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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