Ifs Quote by Billy Wilder

“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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a…

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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

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I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

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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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I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,…

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Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning…

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If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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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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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

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Money makes even bastards legitimate.

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