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
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
I, you know, am all over the place -- every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. . . . I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did "Witness for the Prosecution," then I was bored with it, so I moved on.
I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood.
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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.
I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.