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Billy Wilder quotes: The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Billy Wilder quotes: Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Billy Wilder quotes: I hate that word. It's returna return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. I hate that word. It's return
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
Billy Wilder quotes: Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder quotes: I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Billy Wilder quotes: The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire. The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
Billy Wilder quotes: I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder quotes: You're as good as the best thing you've ever done. You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
Billy Wilder quotes: If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act. If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
Billy Wilder quotes: 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. 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.
Billy Wilder quotes: My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu. My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
Billy Wilder quotes: Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder quotes: They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
Billy Wilder quotes: If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Billy Wilder quotes: That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots. That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.
Billy Wilder quotes: An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Billy Wilder quotes: He has Van Gogh's ear for music. He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder quotes: I just made pictures I would've liked to see. I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
Billy Wilder quotes: Develop a clean line of action for your leading character Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
Billy Wilder quotes: 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. 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 Wilder quotes: Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy Wilder quotes: Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder quotes: Make subtlety obvious. Make subtlety obvious.
Billy Wilder quotes: The best director is the one you don't see. The best director is the one you don't see.
Billy Wilder quotes: I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event. I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
Billy Wilder quotes: Money makes even bastards legitimate. Money makes even bastards legitimate.
Billy Wilder quotes: You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder quotes: It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful. It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
Billy Wilder quotes: Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder quotes: When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
Billy Wilder quotes: I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
Billy Wilder quotes: I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
Billy Wilder quotes: That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise
Billy Wilder quotes: A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder quotes: If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
Billy Wilder quotes: The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
Billy Wilder quotes: I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel. I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Billy Wilder quotes: France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder quotes: The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy Wilder quotes: God save me from myself. God save me from myself.
Billy Wilder quotes: France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder quotes: On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly. On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Billy Wilder quotes: Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Billy Wilder quotes: We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Billy Wilder quotes: Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs? Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?
Billy Wilder quotes: 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. 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.
Billy Wilder quotes: If something smells bad, why put your nose in it? If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
Billy Wilder quotes: One's too many, and a hundred's not enough. One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Billy Wilder quotes: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder quotes: I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
Billy Wilder quotes: My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Billy Wilder quotes: What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

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