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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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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.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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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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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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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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 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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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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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
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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 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 Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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Well, nobody's perfect.
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