What did Billy Wilder mean by: I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria Copy
+ Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Wilder, Hollywood, Killing, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Billy Wilder, Funny, History, Luck, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Wilder, Dream, Good Morning, Inspiration, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Wilder, Fire, Writing, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ Well, nobody’s perfect. Feraz Zeid, June 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Wilder, Gender, Perfect, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Billy Wilder, Enough, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ The best director is the one you don’t see. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Billy Wilder, Directors, Motivational, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
+ Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Billy Wilder, Clever, Obvious, Subtlety, 0 - Billy Wilder Filmmaker · Austria
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
