I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.
Billy WilderI have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy WilderThe more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Billy Wilder