Billy Wilder on Producers

Producers make you feel that if they weren't so busy with six enormous projects which are going to revolutionize the cinema, they could write it better, they could direct it better, they could compose, they could possibly act in it. The truth is they can't write it, they can't direct it, they don't know how to write a note of music. It's easy. It's like roulette. You've got twenty chips and you put them on various numbers. One or two of those chips are going to be winners. Then they will talk exhaustingly about the two or three chips that make a lot of money. - Billy Wilder on Producers