Billy Wilder citáty

„MASH považuji za nejkřehčí mezi současnými komediálními díly.“

—  Billy Wilder

Zdroj: [Töteberg, Michael, 2005, Lexikon světového filmu, Orpheus, 256]

„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

„Je-li vtip opravdu dobrý, je mi úplně jedno, když jím někoho urazím.“

—  Billy Wilder

Zdroj: [Moser, Friedhelm, Malá filozofie pro nefilozofy, Levné knihy, 2010, 978-80-7309-865-0, 139, česky]

„You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.“

—  Billy Wilder

„A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.“

—  Billy Wilder

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.

„What critics call dirty in our movies, they call lusty in foreign films.“

—  Billy Wilder

„I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.“

—  Billy Wilder

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.

„He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.“

—  Billy Wilder

„Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.“

—  Billy Wilder

„If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.“

—  Billy Wilder

„France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can’t tear the toilet paper.“

—  Billy Wilder

„I was the only director who ever made two pictures with Marilyn Monroe. Forget the Oscar,
I deserve the Purple Heart.“

—  Billy Wilder

„People copy, people steal. Most of the pictures they make nowadays are loaded down with
special effects. I couldn’t do that. I quit smoking because I couldn’t reload my Zippo.“

—  Billy Wilder

„You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.“

—  Billy Wilder

„If you don’t like what you’re doing, it’s unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are
happy with your own work first.“

—  Billy Wilder

„I just made pictures I would've liked to see.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in "Billy Wilder" at The Indian Prairie Public Library http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Movies_Music_More/wilder1.pdf

„Of course, there must be subtleties. Just make sure you make them obvious.“

—  Billy Wilder

„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

„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
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