I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDERIf you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
-
-
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDER -
Make subtlety obvious.
BILLY WILDER -
I just always think, ‘Do I like it?’ And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
BILLY WILDER -
One’s too many and a hundred’s not enough.
BILLY WILDER -
I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
BILLY WILDER -
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER -
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
BILLY WILDER -
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
BILLY WILDER -
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.
BILLY WILDER -
She may be a wispy, thin little thing, but when you see that girl, you know you’re really in the presence of something. In that league there’s only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It’s a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you’ve found it.
BILLY WILDER -
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
BILLY WILDER -
If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
BILLY WILDER -
I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
BILLY WILDER -
I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
BILLY WILDER -
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.
BILLY WILDER