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

- Billy Wilder

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

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

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

- Billy Wilder

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

- Billy Wilder

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

- Billy Wilder

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

- Billy Wilder

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

- Billy Wilder

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

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

- Billy Wilder

The best director is the one you don't see.

- 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

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

- Billy Wilder