On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
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 WilderFrance is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
Billy Wilder