Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilderwas an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 June 1906
CountryUnited States of America
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
The best director is the one you don't see.
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
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.
God save me from myself.
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.