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
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
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.
It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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.