Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDERAfter so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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God save me from myself.
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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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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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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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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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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.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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