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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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