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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
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Writer
Samuel Wilder
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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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're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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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 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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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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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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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 don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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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 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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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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