Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder
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.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Billy Wilder
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
Billy Wilder

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.