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Samuel "Billy" Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.
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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.
The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975)
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German.
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.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.
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