Quotes by Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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.

Daughter

Father

Thinking

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Fabulous

Mean

Towns

An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.

Actors

Doors

Entering

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.

Dark

Together

Work

Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Clever

Obvious

Subtlety

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

Able

Actors

Writing

God save me from myself.

Catchy

Save Me

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Funny

History

Luck

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

Great Year

Hollywood Films

Movie

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Able

Actors

Art

Believe

Best Things

Bored

Catchy

Chamberlain

Children

Church

Clever

Culture

Cutting

Dark

Daughter

Directors

Done

Doors

Dream

Eggs

Eight

Entering

Events

Fabulous

Father

Finals

Fire

Firsts

Funny

Genius

Good Morning

Grandmother

Great Year

Happiness

Happy

Hiding

History

Hollywood Films

Idiot

Ifs

Inspiration

Inspirational

Inspiring

Kings

Looks

Luck

Made

Mean

Mediocre

Mixtures

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Quotes by Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

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.

An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.

Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

God save me from myself.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

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