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.
From Billy Wilder
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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