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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
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Samuel Wilder
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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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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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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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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