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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
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Samuel Wilder
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
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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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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 you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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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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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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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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