28 Quotes By - Billy Wilder

28 Quotes By - Billy Wildere

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

— 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

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

— Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

— 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

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

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

— Billy Wilder

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

— Billy Wilder

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

— 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.

— Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

— Billy Wilder

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

— Billy Wilder

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

— Billy Wilder

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

The best director is the one you don't see.

— Billy Wilder

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