"A director must be a policeman, a midwife,……" — Billy Wilder
"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
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57 Quotes by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder has 57 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who…
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You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
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I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.…
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given…
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who…
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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More Bastard Quotes
This quote is filed under Bastard Quotes,
one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as…
— Rachel Cusk
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
— Thomas Moore
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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb…
— George S. Patton
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
— George S. Patton
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a…
— Francis Quarles
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the…
— Babe Ruth
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
— John Steinbeck
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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have…
— John Steinbeck
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy.…
— Stuart Symington
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See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be…
— Linus Torvalds
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