I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDERFrance is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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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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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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