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
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.
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.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?