“Lembre-se de que és tão bom como o que de melhor tiveres feito na vida.”
You are as good as the best thing you've ever done.
citado em People are crazy here - Página 293, de Rex Reed - Publicado por Delacorte Press, 1974 - 306 páginas
Billy Wilder foi um realizador de cinema norte-americano.
Sua carreira de roteirista, cineasta e produtor estendeu-se por mais de 50 anos em mais de 60 filmes. Ele é lembrado como um dos mais brilhantes cineastas de sua época em Hollywood e vários de seus filmes foram aclamados tanto pelo público quanto pela crítica.

“Lembre-se de que és tão bom como o que de melhor tiveres feito na vida.”
You are as good as the best thing you've ever done.
citado em People are crazy here - Página 293, de Rex Reed - Publicado por Delacorte Press, 1974 - 306 páginas
“Se um ator entra pela porta você não tem nada. Mas se ele entra pela janela você tem uma situação.”
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
como citado in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20
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.
como citado in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
“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
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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