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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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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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Samuel Wilder
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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