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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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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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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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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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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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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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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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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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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