Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDERI, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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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Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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 there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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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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If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
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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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Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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