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

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

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

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

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

Hindsight is always zo/20.

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

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

Billy Wilder in Hollywood

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

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Billy Wilder

Filmmaker

Born: 1906-06-22

Died: 2002-03-27

Samuel "Billy" Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.More