Billy Wilder

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#commandments #cut #final #final cut #first

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#beethoven #believe #brilliant #german #hitler

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

— Billy Wilder

#manufacture #marilyn #original #other #she

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

— Billy Wilder

#country #falls #france #money #paper

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

— Billy Wilder

#else #instead #instinct #might #mistakes

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#hindsight

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#bathroom #hotel #i #rather #sleep

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#ground #i #neighborhood #only #walked

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

— Billy Wilder

#i #lot #met #minutes #my time

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

— Billy Wilder

#being #hate #i #more #seriously