Audience Quote by Billy Wilder

“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.”

Billy Wilder

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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.

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If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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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 made pictures I would've liked to see.

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