Facts about Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder was a famous Director from USA, who lived between June 22, 1906 and March 27, 2002.
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He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 28 quotes who is written / told by Billy, under the main topics: Movie, Music, Trust.
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Famous quotes by Billy Wilder (28)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's"
"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"
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award"
"I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel"
"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut"
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood"
"We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre"
"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"
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you"
"I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes"
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper"
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also"
"One's too many, and a hundred's not enough"
"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously"
"Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon"
"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper"
"What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films"
"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original"
"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful"
"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation"
"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning"
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood"
"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard"
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's"
"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty"
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award"
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