"Develop a clean line of action for your leading character"

-- Billy Wilder

#Character Quotes #Lines Quotes #Action Quotes

“Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.”
“In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.”
“Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.”

Source : "Simon Cowell: From Idol to Inventor". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. February 1, 2006.
“Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.”
“I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.”
“The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.”
“Professionally, I have no age.”
“With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!”

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