A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I, you know, am all over the place -- every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. . . . I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did Witness for the Prosecution, then I was bored with it, so I moved on.Billy Wilder
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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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.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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I just thought here is comedy, here is tragedy. That is the way life is. I just tried to do it true to life.
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I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood.
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