Billy Wilder citáty
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Billy Wilder
Datum narození: 22. červen 1906
Datum úmrtí: 27. březen 2002
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Billy Wilder byl americký filmový scenárista a režisér židovského původu, který je dnes považován za jednoho z největších klasiků amerického filmu. Jedná se o šestinásobného držitele ceny Americké filmové akademie Oscar.
Citáty Billy Wilder
„Ve Vídni mám 60-letou tetu, ta nikdy nepřišla pozdě. Nedáme tu roli raději tetě?“
— Billy Wilder
reakce na nedochvilnost Marylyn Monroe při filmovém natáčení
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„A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.“
— Billy Wilder
Context: A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
„I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.“
— Billy Wilder
Context: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
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„Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.“
— Billy Wilder
David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45
„An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.“
— Billy Wilder
As quoted in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20
„The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German.“
— Billy Wilder
As quoted in [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9281967.html?name=Sp%26auml%3Bte+Heimkehr DER SPIEGEL (16 May 1994)])
„Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.“
— Billy Wilder
As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
