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

Billy Wilder

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
BILLY WILDER

Hate People Return Screen
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
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.
BILLY WILDER

Class Deal Law School Underestimate
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
BILLY WILDER

Aunt Hold Pay Punctuation
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Church Nylon Religion
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDER

English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

Life Music Sarcastic
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.
BILLY WILDER

Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
BILLY WILDER

Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER

Make Obvious Subtlety
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER

Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
BILLY WILDER

Hiding Plot Subtle
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDER

Bastard Legitimate Make Money
An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
BILLY WILDER

Actors Doors Entering Situation

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