Billy Wilder Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

  Billy Wilder

  Stupid, Book, Fighting

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

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Movie

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Billy Wilder

  Dirty, Naughty, Lust

• I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

  Billy Wilder

  Art, Looks, Television

• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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