black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.

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 WILDER

Bathroom Hotel Sleep Sunset
God save me from myself.
BILLY WILDER

Catchy Save Me
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
BILLY WILDER

Anyone Fabulous Screen Utterly
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDER

Bastard Legitimate Make Money
Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDER

Gender Nobody Perfect Well
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER

Believe People World
I 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 WILDER

Act Appalled Courageous Get Perhaps Say
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER

Firsts Real Writing
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

Dream Good Inspiration Morning
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

Funny History Luck
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
BILLY WILDER

Hiding Plot Subtle
I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

Church Nylon Religion
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.
BILLY WILDER

Chamberlain Events Preliminaries Spain
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.
BILLY WILDER

Class Middle Normal People Restaurant
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
BILLY WILDER

Believe Thinking Years
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDER

Cutting Finals Nine

I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billy Wilder Quotes