France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper. – Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – 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
Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. – 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
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
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. – 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
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? – Billy Wilder
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously. – 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
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
