Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy WilderFilmโs thought of as a directorโs medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. Itโs 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 theyโve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
Billy WilderLove is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
Billy Wilder