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Billy Wilder

"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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"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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"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."

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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."

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"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."

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