Talk:Billy Wilder

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• People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with special effects. I couldn't do that. I quit smoking because I couldn't reload my Zippo.

• [To a cameraman on one of his pictures] Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

• Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

• He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

• Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.

• My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.