A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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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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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
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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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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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I just made pictures I would’ve liked to see.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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God save me from myself.
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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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