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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.

Billy Wilder

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Believe People World
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Like Made Picture
Make subtlety obvious.
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Make Obvious Subtlety
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Fire Playing Writing
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Class Deal Law School Underestimate
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDER

Directing Directors Film Sycophants
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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Fall Money Paper Travel
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Funny Inspiring Sarcastic
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
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
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Believe Thinking Years
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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League Little Understand Really Something
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Church Nylon Religion
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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Country Hollywood Killing People
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Mediocre Track Undoubtedly

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