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.
BILLY WILDERThe 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.
BILLY WILDERI just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDERWe are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDERGod save me from myself.
BILLY WILDERI just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDERMoney makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDERWe’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 WILDEREighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
BILLY WILDERFrance is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDERI am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDEROne’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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 WILDERI met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDERMake subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER