You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDERThe best director is the one you don’t see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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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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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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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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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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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