Billy Wilder on TCM today

Jim Brennan

Jim Brennan

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The doc "Billy Wilder Speaks" will be on in about an hour (4:30MT) on TCM. I had the chance to see this last year and it was great. He is a very frank man, and talks at length about his experiences (which we can all learn from), as well as a host of funny stories.

Guys like Wilder and Hawks could do any genre well, something that most directors today can't (or won't). I highly recommend checking this out.

And, IIRC, someone on this site has a connection to either Wilder or this doc. It came up awhile back, but I don't remember the details.
 
Interviewer "is it important that a director know how to write?"

Wilder "I think it's more important that they know how to read"

Great stuff
 
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