They’ve tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won’t work. She was an original.
BILLY WILDERAh, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
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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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I hate that word. It’s return–a return to the millions of people who’ve never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
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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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Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
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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 met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you – you’re twenty minutes.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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You’re as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
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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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If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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