1906-, American Film Director
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 – [Audiences]


France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder – [Nations]


France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder – [Nations]


Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder – [Regret]


I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Billy Wilder – [Churches]


If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
Billy Wilder – [Truth]