Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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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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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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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God save me from myself.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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[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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