I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDERGod save me from myself.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Film’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?
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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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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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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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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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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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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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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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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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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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER







