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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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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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God save me from myself.
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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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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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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