[To a
cameraman on one of his pictures] “Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want
to win the foreign film award.”—Oscar-winning screenwriter-director Billy
Wilder (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment), quoted in Peter Archer, The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair Philosophers and Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart (2010)
Monday, February 23, 2015
Quote of the Day (Billy Wilder, on a Sure-Fire Way to Win an Oscar)
[To a
cameraman on one of his pictures] “Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want
to win the foreign film award.”—Oscar-winning screenwriter-director Billy
Wilder (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment), quoted in Peter Archer, The Quotable Intellectual: 1,417 Bon Mots, Ripostes, and Witticisms for Aspiring Academics, Armchair Philosophers and Anyone Else Who Wants to Sound Really Smart (2010)
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