You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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