Billy Wilder on writing
Posted on March 30th, 2010 by
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Excerpt of Michel Ciment’s interview of Wilder.
Get Rid of Writer's Procrastination and Put Your Words to Work For You Now with: Writer's success. This is 100% No Risk to You
Excerpt of Michel Ciment’s interview of Wilder.
where’s the rest of the interview!?
@evanAU So damn true. Today all we really have of their kind are-
Chris Nolan
Jason Reitman
Peter Jackson
Quentin Tarintino
David Fincher
I may be missing some, but I really can’t find any others. I was considering putting Bob Zemeckis, but he’s from the Scorsese/Kubrick age. Speilberg make craps nowadays. Munich was pretty good, but asides from that he made the two Bay Transformer films and Indy 4. Let’s hope we still have more brilliant filmmakers out there.
Martin Scorsese is still making films.
And Hollywood has always been making crap, we just always remember the good ones.
Hollywood has degenerated since good screenwriters and directors like Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, etc. have left the scene.. Now it seems to be just a bunch of crapity-crap that’s coming out of hollywood..
what a man – such a talent, he had such an interesting and rich life, he had his fair share of tragedy. Hollywood still misses his talents, its always so sad to watch excerpts of past masters.
“How would it be if the husband…I don’t like it.” “I don’t like it either.” Funny guys. I’m just reading a biography of Billie called “nobody’s perfect”. It is good, cheack it out.
it woulda been a massacre when Wilder and Chandler were in the same room.
Wilder was simply the best….
Always liked Billy Wilders interviews, he had so much info about the golden age of Hollywood.
Thanks for the info R.J. and no worries – I don’t have Turner over here in Europe – however I’m sure your deprecative comment is too severe
And btw – your anecdotes from Allan Hersholt’s memories on Stroheim are most expected – uh – I mean – welcome, at any time you feel like divulging them
Yessir. I.A.L.was “Izzy”, Billy’s right-hand from “Some Like It Hot”, onward. When Izzy was just starting-out, he and my grandfather both worked on a little(forgotten) film called “Love and Learn” with Jack Carson. Probably not together — my grandfather did the songs. “L&L” turns-up occasionally on Turner, but please don’t go out your way — some things ar best-left forgotten! Thanks for the nice words. R.J.
ha ha – okay – you lost me here… who is “I.A.L”??? Is it Izzy? And you saw Billy walking the streets? wow – so exotic. Nice to hear Billy was both your and your late father’s muse – I love the way he discusses the creative effort – and that you derived so much inspiration from these guys for your own writing – thanks again for commenting
I went all through school in Beverly Hills with a boy named Paul Diamond, who was I.A.L.’S son! One always saw Billy walking the streets of B.H. in those days (maybe he was looking for ideas). Although my late father Stuart, made a very-nice living as a film/television writer,and was very talented too (“The Fugitive”) we were both in agreement that Billy was our personal muse!