Billy Wilder Quotes
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Billy Wilder Quotes & Sayings
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
— Billy Wilder
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
— Billy Wilder
I hate that word. It's returna return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. — Billy Wilder
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
— Billy Wilder
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
— Billy Wilder
You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
— Billy Wilder
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.
— Billy Wilder
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
— Billy Wilder
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
— Billy Wilder
That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.
— Billy Wilder
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
— Billy Wilder
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
— Billy Wilder
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
— Billy Wilder
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
— Billy Wilder
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.
— Billy Wilder
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
— Billy Wilder
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
— Billy Wilder
Make subtlety obvious.
— Billy Wilder
The best director is the one you don't see.
— Billy Wilder
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
— Billy Wilder
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
— Billy Wilder
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
— Billy Wilder
I want to thank three persons, I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.
— Michel Hazanavicius
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.
— Billy Wilder
That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise
— Billy Wilder
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
— Billy Wilder
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
— Clint Eastwood
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
— Rob Zombie
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
— Billy Wilder
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
— Billy Wilder
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
— Billy Wilder
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
— Billy Wilder
One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.
— James Mangold
God save me from myself.
— Billy Wilder
Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
— Lawrence Kasdan
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
— Billy Wilder
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
— Billy Wilder
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
— Billy Wilder
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
— Billy Wilder
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
— Billy Wilder
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
— Billy Wilder
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
— Billy Wilder
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?
— Billy Wilder
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
— Billy Wilder
