Absolutes Quote by Billy Wilder

“She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.”

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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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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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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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