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Billy Wilder

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
BILLY WILDER

Class Deal Law School Underestimate
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Church Nylon Religion
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
BILLY WILDER

Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

Funny History Luck
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER

Believe People World
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.
BILLY WILDER

Hit House Morning Rain Writing
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

Country Happiness People Work
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.
BILLY WILDER

Fabulous Mean Towns
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDER

Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER

Bad Noses Smell
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

First Firsts Own Unlikely
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER

Great Year Hollywood Films Movie
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
BILLY WILDER

Class Middle Normal People Restaurant

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