Billy Wilder Quotes
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.
Sikov, Ed. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. Hyperion, 1998, p. 433.
See Otis Singletary for a similar modern view
The Latin means “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” See Alcuin if York {593018} for a quick history of the statement. Essentially, in science public opinion is irrelevant or at least should be. One of the major political issues in our society is whether ideology and/or public opinion should control policy and practice of scientific issues, methods, and practices.
Billy Wilder was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer, whose career in Hollywood spanned over five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.
