Cinema Quote by Billy Wilder Download Open image “What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.” — Billy Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Critics Dirty
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain filmmakers who look at the kind of work you have been a part of or if you come with a baggage… — Vaani Kapoor Copy Share Image
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons -… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a… — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
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. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
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. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
