To his lighting cameraman:

Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.


Hollywood Anecdotes (1988), P. F. Boller and R. L. Davis

Billy Wilder Quotes

Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.

Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.

Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.

Johnny, it's the usual slashed-wrist shot…Keep it out of focus. I want to win the foreign picture award.