Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
BILLY WILDERLove 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.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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