I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDERGod save me from myself.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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 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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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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God save me from myself.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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 am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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