Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.