Billy Wilder Quotes

» He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

» 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.

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

» Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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

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

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

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

» Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

» We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

» If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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

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

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

» 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.

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

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