We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERWe are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERThe only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDERMy English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDERMoney makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDERWriters became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDERI am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.
BILLY WILDERI’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 WILDERShe was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
BILLY WILDERMarilyn 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.
BILLY WILDERAh, 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 WILDERIf something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDER[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
BILLY WILDEROne’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDERThe 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.
BILLY WILDER