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Billy Wilder Inspirational Quotes (41)

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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
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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.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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God save me from myself.
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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.
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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