Famous quotes by Directors

"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, Director

"I have ten commandments. The first nine are: thou shalt not bore. The tenth is: thou shalt have right of final cut"

Billy Wilder, Director

"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood"

Billy Wilder, Director

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's"

Billy Wilder, Director

"We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre"

Billy Wilder, 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, Director

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you"

Billy Wilder, Director

"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands, but you can't tear the toilet paper"

Billy Wilder, Director

"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"

Billy Wilder, Director

"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper"

Billy Wilder, Director

"What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films"

Billy Wilder, Director

"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, Director

"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful"

Billy Wilder, 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, Director

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning"

Billy Wilder, Director

"I'd worship the ground you walked on, if only you walked in a better neighborhood"

Billy Wilder, Director

"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard"

Billy Wilder, Director

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I am a lie who always speaks the truth"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses"

Jean Cocteau, Director

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