WIlder Interview

The interview with Billy Wilder was very entertaining and interesting. He was incredibly frank and honest when discussing behind the scenes aspects of films he had made. He seems like a character from this interview and like he has a very big personality—as I’m sure most talented directors do. A lot of what he says in the interview reminds me of the documentary short we watched in class which talked about Hitchcock and his tactics in terms of film production. Both Wilder and Hitchcock seemed to have very personal relationships with the actors who participated in their films, whether positive or negative and sometimes even both at the same time.