"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make……" — Billy Wilder
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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57 Quotes by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder has 57 quotes on this site.
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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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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
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