Billy Wilder Quotes

Billy Wilder (29)

Birth:	22nd June, 1906
Death:	27th March, 2002
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Artist, Journalist, Lyricist, Producer

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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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• Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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

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• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.

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

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• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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• Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

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• Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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

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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 being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.

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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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• I’d worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

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• If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.

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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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• I’ve met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.

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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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• One’s too many, and a hundred’s not enough.

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• We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

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• The best director is the one you don’t see.

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