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

Quote by Billy Wilder

Topics: Billy Wilder Quotes

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town....

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

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

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but...

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

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

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

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

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

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

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

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her....

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

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

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

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now...

The secret of art is love.

The secret of art is love.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...