Billy Wilder quotes

" If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you. " # Truth

" Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. " # Experience

" France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. " # Nations # Money # Appreciation

" France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. " # Nations # Money # Books - Reading

" 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. " # Audiences # Critics and Criticism # Genius

" I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. " # Churches

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

" Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, others break their legs, but some of us see better in the dark than others. " # Quotations

" A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard. " # Quotations

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