I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDERShe was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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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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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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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 you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen.
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If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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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.
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