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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder -
I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder -
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder -
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder -
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
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.
Billy Wilder -
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder