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.
BILLY WILDERI hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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God save me from myself.
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[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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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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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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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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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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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