Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.
Join the room“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen zu machen.”
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.”
“I just made pictures I would've liked to see.”
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Billy Wilder (; ; born Samuel Wilder; 22 de junho de 1906 – 27 de março de 2002) foi um cineasta nascido na Áustria. Sua carreira em Hollywood durou cinco décadas, e ele é considerado um dos cineastas mais brilhantes e versáteis do cinema clássico de Hollywood. Ele recebeu sete Academy Awards (entre 21 indicações), um BAFTA Award, a Palma de Ouro do Festival de Cannes e dois Golden Globe Awards.
