black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Billy Wilder

Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Men Perfect Wells
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.
BILLY WILDER

Around Fabulous Mean Met Towns
I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
BILLY WILDER

Like Made Picture
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.
BILLY WILDER

Animal Country Elephants
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.
BILLY WILDER

Class Girl Real Somebody Stars
The best director is the one you don’t see.
BILLY WILDER

Directors Inspirational Motivational
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
BILLY WILDER

Book Director Fighting Stupid Theory
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER

Enough Hundred One
If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDER

Hate Seriously Taken
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDER

English Mixtures Schwarzenegger
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Mediocre Track Undoubtedly
Writers 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 WILDER

Deserve Fight Important Writer
Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER

Make Obvious Subtlety
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
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.
BILLY WILDER

First Firsts Own Unlikely
God save me from myself.
BILLY WILDER

Catchy Save Me

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billy Wilder Quotes