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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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Journalist
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Samuel Wilder
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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'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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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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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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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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