Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Trust, Instincts, Intuition
Hindsight is always 20/20.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Regret, Repentance, Remorse
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
Topics: Audiences, Praise
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
Topics: Perspective
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Aspirations, Goals
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Audiences
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Churches, Religion
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism, Nations
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Truth
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
—Billy Wilder
Topics: Regret
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