I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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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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God save me from myself.
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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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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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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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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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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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