Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Billy Wilder (American Filmmaker)

Billy Wilder was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.

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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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