" . . . those wonderful people out there in the dark"

Sunset Boulevard: The End.
There may be no other scene in cinema that presents the relation between audience and film in such a rich, complex, and creepy way. Focusing on the audience's complicity in cinematic illusion--and thus a fundamental cultural dishonesty and inauthenticity--is pretty common these days. But Billy Wilder was certainly one of the hugest influences on the cynical style in cinema.