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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
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.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your ha... (more Billy Wilder quotes)
His idol and mentor was German director Ernst Lubitsch. In his office hung a sign that said, "How would Lubitsch do it?"
He wrote and directed Some Like it Hot, which was voted #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Comedies of all time.
Nickname was The Viennese Pixie.
He won three Academy Awards in 1960 for the film The Apartment. He won Best Director, Best Writer and as a producer for Best Picture.... (more Billy Wilder trivia)
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