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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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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 always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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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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When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
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