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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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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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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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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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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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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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God save me from myself.
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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 don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
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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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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