We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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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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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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