Actors Quote by William Wyler Download Open image “[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.” — William Wyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actors Directors Great actors Making movies Movie Screenwriting Scripts Theatre
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make. — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You… — Joel Surnow Copy Share Image
The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
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… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
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… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
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… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image