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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.
Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
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.
Billy Wilder
Make subtlety obvious.
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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.
Billy Wilder
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy Wilder
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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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder
Well, nobody's perfect.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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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 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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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