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Billy Wilder
American
Director
About the author
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Hollywood
#Killing
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Nothing
#Actor
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,
American
Director
#May
#Wrong
#Genius
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Obvious
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Money
#France
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Country
#Money
#France
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Happiness
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Production
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Hindsight
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Time
#Hell
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Right
#First
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Sleep
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Worship
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Time
If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Being
#Hate
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#People
#Truth
#Funny
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Music
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Mistakes
#Instinct
#Trust
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Dream
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Want
#Film
#Focus
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
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.
Billy Wilder,
American
Director
#Now
#Nothing
#Man
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,
American
Director
#Work
#Will
#Trying