If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
More Quotes from Billy Wilder:
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.Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
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One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, make them laugh, or they'll kill you.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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