"What critics call dirty in our pictures, they……" — Billy Wilder
"What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films."
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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