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

Quote by Billy Wilder

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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...

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...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

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...

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.

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.

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

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...

If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

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.

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...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cant see where it keeps...

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cant see where it keeps...