One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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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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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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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God save me from myself.
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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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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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