Billy Wilder Quotations

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.

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.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

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

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.