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I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

I'm always looking for a story.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else.

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

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.