I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDERIf you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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We’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.
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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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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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God save me from myself.
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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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