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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

#award #few #film #focus #foreign

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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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. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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