Billy Wilder — American Director born on June 22, 1906, died on March 27, 2002

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film... (wikipedia)

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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.
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.