We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERA bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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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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