Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless. William Wyler More Quotes by William Wyler More Quotes From William Wyler 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 horsenightlying [Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it. William Wyler scriptsactorsdirectors 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 fogsixmorning Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen. William Wyler screensstills If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. William Wyler loyaltydoubtcountry There is nothing clever about confusion. William Wyler aboutnothingconfusionclever 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 roaddoingmusicbusiness It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. William Wyler nothinggetgreatyou Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious. William Wyler fictitiousentirelypicturesgreat 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 familymoneymenwar 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 judgegoodthinkway Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background. William Wyler pictureslivegreatwind 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 greatyouattitudepeople If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical. William Wyler thenwritestonedeaf There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me! William Wyler primapicturesonlyme 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 limitpusheverythingbeing The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances. William Wyler ruinmusttakeyou The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can. William Wyler pushwillgoodluck Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors. William Wyler becomevogueconfusionseems 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 picturesnobodylookpeople
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