I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDERMake subtlety obvious.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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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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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.
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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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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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.
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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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.
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