Billy Wilder Quotes About Film
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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
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I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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