Billy Wilder ✓

(1906–2002) screenwriter Austria

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Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was a Austria screenwriter, known for Sabrina|Some Like It Hot|Sunset Boulevard|Witness for the Prosecution|The Apartment|The Seven Year Itch|Double Indemnity|Stalag 17|Ace in the Hole|The Fortune Cookie.

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All Billy Wilder Quotes

• The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. Collectively
• It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder… Afternoon
• My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu. Archbishop
• 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… Bad
• I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. Bags
• I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. Always Think
• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Chakra
• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is… Audience
• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. Annoying
• An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. Actor
• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Dream
• He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Classic
• Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. Hollywood
• The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. Austrian
• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Bastard
• Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Audience
• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. Funny
• The best director is the one you don't see. Best
• They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. Inspirational
• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. Apart

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