Billy Wilder

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.

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.

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

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

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

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

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

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