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It's eighty percent script an...

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler 5 quotes

[Making movies is] 80% script...

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler 5 quotes

There's only one prima donna ...

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

William Wyler 5 quotes

If we must have the Productio...

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.

William Wyler 5 quotes

The war was an escape to real...

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men.

William Wyler 5 quotes

I made over forty Westerns. I...

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

William Wyler 5 quotes

It looked like 'The Sound of ...

It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to have done both. I thought I'd leave something for somebody else. That's a quip.

William Wyler 5 quotes

There is nothing clever about...

There is nothing clever about confusion.

William Wyler 5 quotes

Everything a director does mu...

Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.

William Wyler 5 quotes

A director must push his acto...

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.

William Wyler 5 quotes

If Beethoven could write his ...

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

William Wyler 5 quotes

I'm delighted that 'The Sound...

I'm delighted that 'The Sound of Music' is doing so well. Of course, it's an infallible piece of material. Even when second- and third-rate road companies were doing the play, they did enormous business.

William Wyler 5 quotes

It's a miserable life in Holl...

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

William Wyler 5 quotes

The trouble with Hollywood is...

The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfortable and don't give a damn about what goes up on the screen so long as it gets by at the box office. How can you expect people with that kind of attitude to make the kind of great pictures that the world will want to see?

William Wyler 5 quotes

When beautiful movie stars al...

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

William Wyler 5 quotes

Look at 'Marienbad' honestly....

Look at 'Marienbad' honestly. What is it? It is just another talking radio show with pictures. Nobody acts. People stand around while the author talks about the woodwork.

William Wyler 5 quotes

I'm accused constantly of hav...

I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it.

William Wyler 5 quotes

It's a miserable life in Holly...

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

William Wyler 5 quotes

I made over forty Westerns. I ...

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

William Wyler 5 quotes

It's a miserable life in Holly...

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

William Wyler 5 quotes

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