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When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
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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 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 you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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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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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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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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