Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDERI am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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God save me from myself.
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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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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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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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Make subtlety obvious.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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 had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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