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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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
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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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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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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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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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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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One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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.