He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Quote by Billy Wilder

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Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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...

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,...

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

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

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

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.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming...

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming...

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

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...

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....

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of...

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of...

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.