
Billy Wilder citáty
Billy Wilder
Datum narození: 22. červen 1906
Datum úmrtí: 27. březen 2002
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. Wikipedia
Citáty Billy Wilder

„MASH považuji za nejkřehčí mezi současnými komediálními díly.“
Zdroj: [Töteberg, Michael, 2005, Lexikon světového filmu, Orpheus, 256]
„Ve Vídni mám 60-letou tetu, ta nikdy nepřišla pozdě. Nedáme tu roli raději tetě?“
reakce na nedochvilnost Marylyn Monroe při filmovém natáčení
„Je-li vtip opravdu dobrý, je mi úplně jedno, když jím někoho urazím.“
Zdroj: [Moser, Friedhelm, Malá filozofie pro nefilozofy, Levné knihy, 2010, 978-80-7309-865-0, 139, česky]
„Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.“
David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45
Misattributed
„A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.“
As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
Kontext: 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.
„I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.“
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
Kontext: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
„I just made pictures I would've liked to see.“
As quoted in "Billy Wilder" at The Indian Prairie Public Library http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Movies_Music_More/wilder1.pdf
„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.“
As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
„An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.“
As quoted in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20