Top 28 Quotes by Billy Wilder

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

The best director is the one you don't see.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.