Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. - Billy Wilder
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act. - Billy Wilder
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
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 affo… - Billy Wilder
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 affo…
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Well, nobody's perfect. - Billy Wilder
Well, nobody's perfect.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. - Billy Wilder
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. - Billy Wilder
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. - Billy Wilder
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. - Billy Wilder
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
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