If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDERMake subtlety obvious.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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 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 had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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God save me from myself.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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