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- Thornton Wilder: American writer and playwright
- Billy Wilder: Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist
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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
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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.
Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) -
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970) -
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.
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As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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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.
The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975) -
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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