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Billy Wilder

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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Billy Wilder
"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"

Entertainment

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Billy Wilder
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

Fun

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Billy Wilder
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

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Billy Wilder
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."

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Billy Wilder
"Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon."

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Billy Wilder
"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

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Billy Wilder
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

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Billy Wilder
"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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Billy Wilder
"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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Billy Wilder
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."

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