I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
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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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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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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Well, nobody’s perfect.
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Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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I’m delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we’ve got something to look down on.
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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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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
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I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.
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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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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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