109 Quotes by Billy Wilder

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

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.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

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

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.