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.
BILLY WILDEREighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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God save me from myself.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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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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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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