Billy Wilder Quotes - 9quotes.com

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Written by Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Written by 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.
Written by Billy Wilder
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Written by Billy Wilder
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Written by Billy Wilder
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Written by Billy Wilder
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
Written by Billy Wilder
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Written by Billy Wilder
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Written by Billy Wilder
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Written by Billy Wilder
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Written by Billy Wilder
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Written by Billy Wilder
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
Written by Billy Wilder
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
Written by Billy Wilder
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Written by Billy Wilder
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Written by Billy Wilder
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
Written by Billy Wilder
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Written by Billy Wilder
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Written by Billy Wilder
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Written by Billy Wilder
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Written by Billy Wilder
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Written by 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.
Written by Billy Wilder
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Written by 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.
Written by Billy Wilder
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Written by Billy Wilder
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Written by Billy Wilder
The best director is the one you don't see.
Written by Billy Wilder

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