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«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.»
«I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.»
«My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?»
Author: Billy Wilder | Keywords: aunt, aunts, hold up, Minnie, punctual
«Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.»
Author: Billy Wilder | Keywords: Marilyn Monroe, Monroe
«Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen.»
«An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.»
Author: Billy Wilder | About: Audiences | Keywords: imbecile, imbeciles
«It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)»
Author: Billy Wilder | About: Art, Television | Keywords: films, lowest
«Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.»
Author: Billy Wilder | About: Wisdom | Keywords: hindsight
«I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.»
Author: Billy Wilder | Keywords: First Commandment
«It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.»
Author: Billy Wilder

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