Quotes from Billy Wilder

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

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

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

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.

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

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

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

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

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

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

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

That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.

Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they're a genius.

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

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise

You're only as good as the best thing you've ever done.

The big trick is to find the subject that relates to a human experience. Explain the rules, involve people, and they will do most of the work for you.

Studios! You can't make picture with 'em, you can't make pictures without 'em.

Goodbye, Baby. Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) Double Indemnity

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