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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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After 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.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Make subtlety obvious.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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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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