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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.

Billy Wilder

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
BILLY WILDER

Hit House Morning Rain Writing
They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
BILLY WILDER

Keep Manufacture Original Trying
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
BILLY WILDER

Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
BILLY WILDER

Bored Category Moved People
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

Country Hollywood Killing People
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
BILLY WILDER

Believe Thinking Years
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDER

Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDER

Cutting Finals Nine
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDER

Hate Seriously Taken
Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Gender Nobody Perfect Well
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER

Fire Playing Writing
The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
BILLY WILDER

Country People Ring Smell Sound Stationery Telephone
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDER

Best Things Done
God save me from myself.
BILLY WILDER

Catchy Save Me

I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.

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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.

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