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Billy Wilder was a 20th-century American filmmaker. Billy Wilder was an American filmmaker and screenwriter. Born in Sucha Beskidzka, at the time in Austria-Hungary, Wilder's career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of classical Hollywood cinema. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“He has Van Goghs ear for music.”
— Billy Wilder
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“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
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“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”
— Billy Wilder
Focus Win Want

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
— Billy Wilder
Mistakes Well Instinct

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”
— 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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