#billy wilder

Spend an hour with Billy Wilder sharing his memories and wisdom on filmmaking.

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Love in the Afternoon (1957), dir. Billy Wilder

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I’ll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal!

Claudette Colbert & Gary Cooper in
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
1938 dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder

The Onion+Witness for the Prosecution(1957)

Sunset Boulevard

Spanish poster for Sunset Boulevard

Some like it hot - Billy Wilder (1959)

Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot directed by Billy Wilder, 1959 

Tribute poster to Sunset Boulevard, a film directed by Billy Wilder (1950).

what are you looking at me for?

ah. one fuhrer is enough.

the code

sure i trade a sharper than you guys. that doesn’t make me a collaborator

after the war, i’ll get you a date with betty grable

“You don’t want girls with boots on.”
“I don’t care if they wear galoshes." 

us vs them

the heroic dead.

you supposed to drink this stuff or shave?

opening gambit

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Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953)

When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. 

How’d you like to make yourself a thousand dollars a day, Mr. Boot? I’m a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaperman. You can have me for nothing. 

You know what’s wrong with New Mexico, Mr. Wendel? Too much outdoors.

the fade.

It’s a good story today. Tomorrow, they’ll wrap a fish in it.

When they bleached your hair, they must have bleached your brain too. 

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you’re twenty minutes.