Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDERI am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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God save me from myself.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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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 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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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 Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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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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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 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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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