The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDERI have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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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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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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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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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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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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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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