Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDERHindsight is always twenty-twenty.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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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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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 there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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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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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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God save me from myself.
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After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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