We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERThe best director is the one you don’t see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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God save me from myself.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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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 never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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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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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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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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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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