“Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together they’re a genius.”

– From Billy Wilder Speaks (Kino, 2006), directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Gisela Grischow

(The Kino DVD release of Billy Wilder Speaks, which I recommend, is a 71-minute version of Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie’s gemacht? [Billy Wilder, How Did You Do It?], a 1992 three hour multi-part special produced for German television.  The Kino edition does include an additional 70 minutes of interview and related footage as extras.)