Billy Wilder Quotes

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

Trust, Mistakes, Someone

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

May, Together, Dark

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

Movies, Focus, Win

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Music, Ear, Gogh

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

Nothing, Through, Door

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

Hollywood, Monroe, Marilyn

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

Funny, Truth, Tell

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

Director, Policeman, Midwife

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

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

Dreams, Morning, Dream

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

Audience, Clever, Obvious

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

Money, Country, Paper

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

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

Money, Place, Hands

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

Ten, Cut, Final

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

Brilliant, German, Beethoven

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

Work, Trying, Keep

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Billy Wilder

Happiness, Working, Jack

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

Sleep, Another, Rather

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

Worship, Ground, Walked

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

Time, Minutes, Eggs

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

Hate, Seriously, Taken

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

Time, After, Hell

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

Pay, Hold, Production

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

Enough, Hundred

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 22, 1906

Died: March 27, 2002

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