About Billy Wilder:
Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film (The Apartment), and was the first person to accomplish this.
Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Billy WilderHollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Billy WilderDon't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy WilderIf there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Billy Wilder