Filter quotes by topic
Famous Billy Wilder Quotes
“Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?”
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”
“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
“[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.”
“Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.”
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
“Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.”
“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”
“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”
“I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.”
“Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.”
“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”
“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”
“One's too many and a hundred's not enough.”