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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
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Samuel Wilder
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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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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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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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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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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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