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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 ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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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 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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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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 you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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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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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: 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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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