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Billy Wilder Quotes

Type: Director | Date of Birth: 1906-06-22 | Year of Death: 2002 | Nationality: American

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

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

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

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

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
Billy Wilder

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

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

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

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder

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