Billy Wilder, along with collaborators Charles Brackett, I.A.L. Diamond and a handful of others, created more than 60 screenplays in his lifetime. From them, we selected single lines of dialogue that stand on their own.
when someone attending the funeral of Harry Cohn, the fearsome president of Columbia Pictures, asked how it was possible that such a huge crowd would show up for Cohn’s funeral, Wilder quipped: “Well, give the people what they want.”
"I want to thank three persons,” said Michel Hazanavicius, accepting the 2012 Best Picture Oscar for “The Artist.” “I want to thank Billy Wilder, I want to thank Billy Wilder and I want to thank Billy Wilder.”