We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Quote by Billy Wilder

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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.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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.

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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.

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

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

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...

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.

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...

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...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of...

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of...

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.