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Billy Wilder
Age: 95 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2002
Died: March 27
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
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 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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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Well, nobody's perfect.
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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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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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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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God save me from myself.
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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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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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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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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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