A biography for Billy Wilderhasn’t been written yet.
“Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.”
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.”
“It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.”
“I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.”
“What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.”
“If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.”
“Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.”
“One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.”