Billy Wilder: An audience is...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

ENTERTAINERS > film scenarist, director, producer > Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder: An audience is...

Vendor: ENTERTAINERS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

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.

Source: Arena, TV profile, 24 Jan. 1992, BBC2
-- Billy Wilder, (Jun 22 1906-2002), Austrian-US film scenarist, director, producer; His films treat humorously subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of American life, e.g., Some Like It Hot, and Stalag 17.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA