Billy Wilder Thoughts
Best 30+ Billy Wilder Messages, Quotes, and Images
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.
I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.
I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
Money makes even bastards legitimate.