Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDERWe are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
More Billy Wilder Quotes
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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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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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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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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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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 you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
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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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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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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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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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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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Ah, 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.
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