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
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?
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.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
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.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
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.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.