I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDERThe only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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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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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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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 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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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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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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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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