Billy Wilder

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United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)

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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western. Lawrence Kasdan

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. Richard Serra

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. Rob Zombie

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of. Stephen Merchant

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. Jason Reitman

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on Hollywood and the news media. Source: Internet

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