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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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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
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Writer
Samuel Wilder
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Perfect
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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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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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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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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God save me from myself.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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