I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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Make subtlety obvious.
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[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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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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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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An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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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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Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book?
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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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They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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