If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDERLove is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
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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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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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.
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The best director is the one you don’t see.
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Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
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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.
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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.
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