My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
Billy WilderI have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy WilderAn audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy WilderLove is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
Billy Wilder