The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
- Billy Wilder
World, Brilliant, German, Beethoven
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
- Billy Wilder
Always, Pay, Production, Aunt
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 Commandments, Nine, Cut, Thou
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
- Billy Wilder
Director, Policeman, Must, Midwife
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
- Billy Wilder
Hollywood, Marilyn, Monroe, None
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
- Billy Wilder
Better, Only, Walked, Neighborhood
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
- Billy Wilder
Happiness, Working, Jack
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
- Billy Wilder
Eggs, My Time, Lot, Twenty
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
- Billy Wilder
Dirty, Critics, Call, Lusty
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
- Billy Wilder
Country, Toilet, Falls, Apart
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
- Billy Wilder
Hands, Toilet, Your, Apart
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
Through, Which, Means, Doorway
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
- Billy Wilder
Movies, Award, Want, Shoot
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
Will, Original, Other, Undoubtedly
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
- Billy Wilder
Door, Actor, Through, Entering
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
- Billy Wilder
Sleep, Rather, Would, Bathroom
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- Billy Wilder
Music, Van, Ear, Gogh
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
Audience, Individual, May, Imbeciles
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder
Always, Hindsight
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
- Billy Wilder
More, Than, Too, Taken
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
- Billy Wilder
Clever, Audience, Too, Obvious
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Trust, Someone, Instinct, Instead
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
- Billy Wilder
Mediocre, Absolutely, Track
The best director is the one you don't see.
- Billy Wilder
Best, You, See, Director
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
- Billy Wilder
Time, Over, Over It, Wonderful
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
- Billy Wilder
Dream, Get, Up, Dreams
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
- Billy Wilder
Enough, Too, Many, Hundred
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
Truth, People, Going, Tell
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