The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
BILLY WILDERYou’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
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I, you know, am all over the place – every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent.
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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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I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
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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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We’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.
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Marilyn 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.
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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.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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