William Wyler

Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events…

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfortable and don't give a…

— William Wyler

Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.

— William Wyler

There is nothing clever about confusion.

— William Wyler

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

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

— William Wyler

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…

— William Wyler

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film…

— William Wyler

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family...…

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

I'm delighted that 'The Sound of Music' is doing so well. Of course, it's an infallible piece of material. Even when second-…

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to…

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

— William Wyler

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny…

— William Wyler

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…

— William Wyler

I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture,…

— William Wyler

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

— William Wyler

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as…

— William Wyler

To me it's more fun and more challenging, too, to do different types of pictures.

— William Wyler

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

— William Wyler

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

— William Wyler