Billy Wilder Quotes

• I don’t object to foreigners speaking a foreign language; I just wish they’d all speak the same foreign language.

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• Fasten your cigarettes.

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• No one ever leaves a star.

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• Making a picture with Marilyn Monroe was like going to the dentist. It was hell at the time, but after it was all over it was wonderful.

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• Johnny, keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.

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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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• Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

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• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.

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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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• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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• Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

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• Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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• It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

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• I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

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• If there’s anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.

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• Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.

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• I’d worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

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• If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.

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• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

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Billy Wilder (34)

Birth:	22nd June, 1906
Death:	27th March, 2002
Nationality:	American, Austrian
Profession:	Artist, Film Director, Journalist, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film, and was the first person to accomplish this.

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• 1957 - Ray Romano
• 1892 - Rebecca West
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• 1892 - Walter Hagen

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• 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger
• 2001 - David Swift
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• 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky
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