They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
BILLY WILDERLove 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.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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