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 hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?
I just made pictures I would've liked to see.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
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 hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
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.
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.