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Billy Wilder [1906-2002] American

Rank: 101
Director, Filmmaker

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films.

Dreams, Funny, Money, Morning, Movies, Music, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.	Dreams, Morning	101
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.	Trust	102
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.	Money	103
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.		104
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.	Music	105
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.	Funny	106
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.		107
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.		108
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.		109
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.		110
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.		111
The best director is the one you don't see.		112
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.	Movies	113
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.		114
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.		115
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.		116
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.		117
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.		118
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?		119
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.		120
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.		121
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.		122
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.		123
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.		124
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.		125
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.		126
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.		201
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.		202

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