Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
— Billy Wilder
Famous Quotes
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.