Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. Featured dangerous, manipulative women in his films Johnson, eds.

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When you say that I am searching for truth, and uh so and so, you French really know how to flatter somebody.

Billy wanted to direct, mainly to protect his scripts which other directors had ruined. I want to be in my office and think. In his last years he became patron of the "Billy-Wilder-Institute" located in Germany, a film school founded to educate only producers and screenwriters. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder’s Noir Trilogy; Why I want to fuck J. G. Ballard; It Was a Very Good Year; Murder in Mind; The Liffey Swim; Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves; The Apocalypse We Can’t Even See: A.I. "Sunset Boulevard" He wrote five of the American Film Institute's 100 Funniest Movies: Billy Wilder About Film Noir. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945".

When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, "My father is an idiot."

The second of two sons, his father ran a chain of railway station cafes.

On the other hand, many of the partners complained that if he heard an idea he did not like, he could be cruel and insulting. He used "Billie" as his first name until his emigration in 1933. Michael Caine tells in his biography that he was surprised to see Billy Wilder living in a flat instead a villa. Trust your own instinct.

Vincent died shortly after birth. Wilder got a great deal when he originally licensed the song for use, which allowed him to use it over and over.

It is thought that Wilder gained his acerbic view of people early on. Was voted the 24th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. I go for the masses. But if he enters through a window, you've got a situation. I don't go for that.

encouraged by his mother he enrolled as a law student at the University of Vienna but quit after 3 months to be a writer on a magazine which although poorly paid it gave him a great amount of experience interviewing such as Richard Strauss and Sigmund Freud. His break came when he worked on 'People on Sunday', a modest film directed by Robert Siodmak, assistant cameraman Fred Zinneman and co-director Edgar Ulmer who would all later become prominent in the industry. Caine visited the apartment and said that it was full of paintings, with no room left to hang them on the walls. You meet nice people, it's glamorous, and, if you get lucky, very profitable.

Willam Holden was a last minute casting for the role of Joe after Montgomery Clift dropped out 2 weeks before shooting was due to start.

I go for the end effect. His mother, Gitla Siedlisker, was murdered in 1943 in the Plaszow concentration camp. A fast and prolific writer he got introduced to prominent figures in the growing German film industry resulting in him being hired as a ghost writer writing scripts for established writers who didn't have time to meet their contractual obligations.

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He is among an elite group of nine directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) for the same film. Billy Wilder: About Film Noir an interview by Robert Porfirio "A man who makes movies and certainly somebody like myself that makes all kinds of movies, works in different styles. [asked if it was important for a director to know how to write] No, but it helps if he knows how to read. He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1993 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington, DC. A whodunit set in 1940s Hollywood, it has Kids, I don't know. Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian-born American filmmaker. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. He directed two Best Picture Academy Award winners:
He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in "One Head Is Better than Two," in Films and Filming (London), February 1957.Morris Dickstein (Spring 1988). Characters often look themselves on a little mirror But there's one thing, you know, that I hate more than not being taken seriously, is to be taken too seriously. An audience is never wrong.

Because of his rounded face and non-stop elfin energy, people often pictured him as short and wiry, but he was in fact near 6 feet tall (taller than his favorite star, If there are two guys that think the same way, that have the same background, that have the same political convictions and all the rest, it's terrible.

You suffer a great deal, but to paraphrase President [

I like to tell stories.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist. Some theorize it was due to her fascination with the western character Buffalo Bill Cody, but it may have been just because she thought it sounded American (she was obsessed with American culture).
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His family, Austrian Jews, traveled constantly, and Wilder almost never made friends among his peers at school and instead found himself the subject of persecution as both a Jew and a foreigner. His chance came with 'The Major and the Minor' with Ginger Rogers. After a few more scripts with Charles which Billy directed and Charles produced Billy collaborated with Raymond Chandler on 'Double Indemnity' - the house used as Barbara Stanwyck's character's home still stands today at 6301 Quebec Drive.

Frankly, I regard it as a compliment. Directed four of the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies: