Billy Wilder

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#music #music

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

— Billy Wilder

#jack-lemmon #movies #perfection #movies

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

— Billy Wilder

#dream #get #morning #up #you

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#ear #gogh #van

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

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

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

— Billy Wilder

#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#kill #killing #marilyn #marilyn monroe #monroe

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

— Billy Wilder

#going #kill #people #tell #truth

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

— Billy Wilder

#midwife #must #policeman #psychoanalyst

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

— Billy Wilder

#door #entering #enters #got #nothing