109 Quotes by 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.

If there’s anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it’s being taken too seriously.

Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they’re a genius.

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

The big trick is to find the subject that relates to a human experience. Explain the rules, involve people, and they will do most of the work for you.

Well, nobody’s perfect.

Studios! You can’t make picture with ’em, you can’t make pictures without ’em.

Hollywood didn’t kill Marilyn Monroe, it’s the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

The best director is the one you don’t see.