You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDERMoney makes even bastards legitimate.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
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I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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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.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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