Make subtlety obvious.
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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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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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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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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