We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERFilm’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?
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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.
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A 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.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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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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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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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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