American - Director | June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
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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've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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The best director is the one you don't see.
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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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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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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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