Billy Wilder: A Director Must Know How To Read

Billy Wilder says that while it's not necessary for a Director to know how to write, it is necessary for him to know how to "read". This clip is part of a Harold Lloyd Master Seminar shot in 1976.
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[@cracerboy1]

Such a genius. An immigrant from Hungary who comes over as a young adult and doesn't know English becomes a master at English and writes some of the best, most remembered screenplays in American movies.

[@TRINZINI]

with the help of Charles Brackett, let's not forget.

[@giuliom3564]

He was Austrian, not Hungarian.

[@malcolmnorton2217]

@@TRINZINI He had several collaborators, most notably Izzy Diamond and most famously, Raymond Chandler.

[@souldiving4197]

@@TRINZINI many collaborators

[@SSchleifer]

He was and remains a genius. His analysis and advice is always blunt and direct, no BS.

[@rossharmonics]

The Wings of Eagles is a biopic of Spig Wead, who among other things wrote screeplays. He is hired by a director, modeled on John Ford, who directed TWOE. Wead asks how does he know I can write and a person ,answers him 'well he knows he can't'. John Wayne said that when Ford got a script, he kept crossing out line after line till he pared it down to what was absolutely necessary.

[@grandcosmo]

His humor is lost on that crowd.

[@Xirbtt]

Ha! Always on the jokes this Wilder guy.

[@marileidegomesdonascimento1367]

isso e fake