You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDERYou’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
BILLY WILDERMy English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDERIf there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.
BILLY WILDERI don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDERAfter 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.
BILLY WILDERAn actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
BILLY WILDERHollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDERA director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDERIf you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDERI have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
BILLY WILDERIf you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDERYou have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDERThe more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
BILLY WILDERJerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDERFrance is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDERMarilyn 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.
BILLY WILDER