"Now, what is it which makes a scene……" — Billy Wilder
"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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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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