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.
The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.
If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.
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.
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
God save me from myself.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.