The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy WilderTrust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy WilderThe forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
Billy WilderShe was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.
Billy Wilder