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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Billy Wilder

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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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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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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
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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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Well, nobody's perfect.
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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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 Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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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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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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