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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder Quotes

6 quotes

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)

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

on Humor

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

on Leadership

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

on Truth

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

on Wisdom

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

on Wisdom

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

on Dreams

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