The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDERI have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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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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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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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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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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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 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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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