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

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

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Billy Wilder

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

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