They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
BILLY WILDERWriters became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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God save me from myself.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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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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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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