zitiert in Hellmuth Karasek: Billy Wilder - Eine Nahaufnahme, Hoffmann und Campe, 1992, S. 308, und ders., Späte Heimkehr - über den Wien-Besuch Billy Wilders, DER SPIEGEL 20/1994 vom 16.05.1994, Seite 215-216 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9281967.html?name=Sp%26auml%3Bte+Heimkehr
Billy Wilder Berühmte Zitate
nach Beendigung der Dreharbeiten von "Manche mögen’s heiß", im Interview mit der "New York Herald Tribune", 10. Februar 1959, zitiert in Tony Curtis: The Making of Some Like It Hot - My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie, Wiley & Sons, New Jersey 2009. S. 222 http://books.google.de/books?id=5WVDRyRvy_4C&pg=PT222. Übersetzung nach Hellmuth Karasek: Billy Wilder - Eine Nahaufnahme, Hoffmann und Campe, 1992. S. 398. Vorabdruck in DER SPIEGEL 3. August 1992 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13680344.html
Original engl.: "Would I direct Marilyn again? I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and my accountant. They tell me I’m too old and too rich to go through it again."
zitiert in Hellmuth Karasek: Billy Wilder - Eine Nahaufnahme, Hoffmann und Campe, 1992. S. 399. Vorabdruck in DER SPIEGEL 3. August 1992 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13680344.html
"My god, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War II, and there's a great similarity. It was not easy. It was hell. But it was well worth it once you got it on the screen." - Dialogue on Film; Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. The American Film Institute/1976. In: Billy Wilder Interviews, edited by Robert Horton. University Press of Mississippi. p. 113 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=OCAKjmrTZo8C&pg=PA113
Billy Wilder: Zitate auf Englisch
“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.
Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen zu machen.
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