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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Samuel Wilder
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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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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God save me from myself.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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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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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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