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Billy Wilder

"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."

Billy Wilder, American Director
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"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

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