The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
BILLY WILDERShe was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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 just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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