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Billy Wilder

screenwriter, film director, film producer, writer, journalist, director, producer, film screenwriter

1906 – 2002

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. He received seven Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or and two Golden Globe Awards.

All Quotes by Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder

A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

Billy Wilder

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

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

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder

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

Billy Wilder