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

Quote by Billy Wilder

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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...

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...

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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....

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one...

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one...

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the...

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the...

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due...

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due...