Billy Wilder frasi celebri
da Un secolo di cinema - Viaggio nel cinema americano di Martin Scorsese
citato in Gary Cooper. Il cinema dei divi, l'America degli eroi, p. 248
citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 228
Su Marilyn Monroe
“Quella non era solo difficile, era impossibile.”
ricordando la lavorazione di A qualcuno piace caldo; citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 298
Su Marilyn Monroe
citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 309
Su Marilyn Monroe
Billy Wilder Frasi e Citazioni
“Possiede una certa indefinibile e penetrante magia, come nessun'altra attrice in attività.”
citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 312
Su Marilyn Monroe
citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 320
Su Marilyn Monroe
“Come lei non ce ne sarà mai un'altra, e Dio sa quante imitatrici ha avuto.”
citato in Mike Evans, Marilyn, p. 399
Su Marilyn Monroe
citato in Billy Wilder - Un viennese a Hollywood, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1993, pag. 343
Billy Wilder: Frasi in inglese
“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
Contesto: 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
Contesto: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen zu machen. <br class="br">As quoted in DER SPIEGEL (16 May 1994) http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9281967.html?name=Sp%26auml%3Bte+Heimkehr)
As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
As quoted in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20
“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
