I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDERI just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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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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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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