Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDERAfter 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.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that’s the bunk. It’s little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
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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, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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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.
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Eighty 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.
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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