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Inspirational Quotes by Billy Wilder
- Money makes even bastards legitimate.
- I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
- One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
- You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
- We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
- Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
- The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
- God save me from myself.
- The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
- My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
- I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
- Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
- Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
- The best director is the one you don't see.
- They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
- I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
- I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
- 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.
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento