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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

American Director

Born: Jun 22, 1906

Died: Mar 27, 2002

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Billy Wilder

Trust Mistakes Own Else Someone Instead Instinct Well Might Your

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. Billy Wilder

Music Van He Gogh Ear

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. Billy Wilder

Funny Truth You People Tell Going

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder

Director Must Policeman Midwife

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. Billy Wilder

People World Brilliant Made Believe Beethoven German

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough. Billy Wilder

Too Enough Hundred Many

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. Billy Wilder

You Man Nothing Once See Window Scene Through Him Makes Coming Doorway Which Interesting Means Now

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. Billy Wilder

Films Our Critics Dirty Pictures Call Foreign Lusty

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Billy Wilder

Clever Too Also Obvious Make Audience Subtleties

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. Billy Wilder

Monroe Hollywood Who Marilyn Marilyn Monroe

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. Billy Wilder

You Situation Nothing Entering Window Through He Got Door Actor

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre. Billy Wilder

Something Absolutely Track Mediocre

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