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The best director is the one you don't see.

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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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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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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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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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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God save me from myself.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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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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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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