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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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Samuel Wilder
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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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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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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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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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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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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