Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDERMake subtlety obvious.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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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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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’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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