My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDERMy English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
BILLY WILDERWell, nobody’s perfect.
BILLY WILDERI just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDERMoney makes even bastards legitimate.
BILLY WILDERIf you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDERHappiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDERThey’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
BILLY WILDERIf 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.
BILLY WILDERIf something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
BILLY WILDERThe forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
BILLY WILDERI 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.
BILLY WILDERHindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDERI am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDERThe best director is the one you don’t see.
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 WILDERYou 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.
BILLY WILDER