You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDERFrance is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don’t bury our dead. When you think it’s out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
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One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
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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’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
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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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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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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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Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
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Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man. Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.
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I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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