Billy Wilder Quotes
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
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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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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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 have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.