Billy Wilder in: Susan Beth Lehman Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again, Intellect Books, 2013, p. 26
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
— Billy Wilder on Film director
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About Billy Wilder
Samuel "Billy" Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.
About Billy Wilder
Samuel "Billy" Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.
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