Billy Wilder: Picture

Billy Wilder was American filmmaker. Explore interesting quotes on picture.

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“A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.”

Billy Wilder

As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
Context: A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Dead

“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.”

Billy Wilder

As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen

Parting

“I just made pictures I would've liked to see.”

Billy Wilder

As quoted in "Billy Wilder" at The Indian Prairie Public Library http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Movies_Music_More/wilder1.pdf

“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.”

Billy Wilder

Making love , People

“I was the only director who ever made two pictures with Marilyn Monroe. Forget the Oscar,
I deserve the Purple Heart.”

Billy Wilder

Forgetting , Heart