A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Quote by Billy Wilder

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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone...

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the...

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the...

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't...

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all...

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all...

The child weeps for its good and the old man for his ill.

The child weeps for its good and the old man for his ill.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his...

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his...