"Trust your own gut. Your mistakes might as well be your own, rather than someone else's." Billy Wilder Until today, I never heard of this character of Jewish descent born in the Astro-Hungarian empire. However, he is the artifice, as a film director and screenwriter, of the most iconic scene of Marilyn Monroe. Wilder was famous for his keen intelligence and his success in Hollywood. Undoubtedly the quote is a sample of the assertive use of irony with a comic tinge. Image by Christopher Lawrence on Pixabay