The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDERA bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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God save me from myself.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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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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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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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 you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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