Billy Wilder Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Billy Wilder on Wise Famous Quotes.
I hate that word. It's return
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
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.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.