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«Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| About:
Celebrity,
Women
| Keywords:
Marilyn Monroe, meanest, Monroe, terribly, the screen, town meeting
«I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| Keywords:
dealing, Harvard, Harvard Law, Harvard Law School, law school, middle class, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, restaurant, subway, underestimate
«My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?»
«Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.»
«Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen.»
Author: Billy Wilder
| About:
Courage,
Truth
| Keywords:
courageous, Marilyn Monroe, Monroe, screen, the screen
«An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.»
«It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)»
«Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.»
«I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.»
Author: Billy Wilder
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First Commandment
«It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.»
Author: Billy Wilder
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