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I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

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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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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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
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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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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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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 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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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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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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 am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
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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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Make subtlety obvious.
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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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