Classic Quotes by Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

— Billy Wilder

Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a…

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

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

— Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

— Billy Wilder

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.

— Billy Wilder

I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,…

— Billy Wilder

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning…

— 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.

— Billy Wilder

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

— Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

— Billy Wilder