Quotes by William Wyler - Page 1

There is nothing clever about confusion.
William Wyler / Film Director
Clever
Confusion
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Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.
William Wyler / Film Director
Entirely
Fictitious
Pictures
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Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
William Wyler / Film Director
Screens
Stills
Belong
Lobby
Screen
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There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!
William Wyler / Film Director
Prima
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Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.
William Wyler / Film Director
Confusion
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The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.
William Wyler / Film Director
Chances
Ruin
Slightest
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To me it's more fun and more challenging, too, to do different types of pictures.
William Wyler / Film Director
Me Fun More
Different Types
Types
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William Wyler / Film Director
Actors
Directors
Scripts
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Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
William Wyler / Film Director
Useless
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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William Wyler / Film Director
Eighty
Percent
Script
Twenty
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If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
William Wyler / Film Director
Deaf
Symphony
Beethoven
William
Stone
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When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.
William Wyler / Film Director
Movie Stars
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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 / Film Director
Loyalty
Country
Don't Care
Doubt
Noses
Doubts
Nose
Punch
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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 / Film Director
Movies
Awake
Forty
Horse
Lying
New Ways
Night
Nights
Lie
On And Off
Ways
Westerns
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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 / Film Director
Morning
Fog
Hollywood
Miserable
Nine
Ready
Shooting
Six
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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 / Film Director
Luck
Good Ones
Laurence
Limit
Oliver
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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, but I still gotta believe in it!
William Wyler / Film Director
Picture
Touch
Good Picture
Gotta
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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 / Film Director
Birth
Historical
Wind
Gone With The Wind
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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 / Film Director
Corny
Overboard
Scene
Sentimental
Limit
Push
Utmost
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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 / Film Director
Accused
Constantly
Signature
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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 / Film Director
Code
Determine
Good Bad Way
Judge
Effect
Production
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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 / Film Director
Acts
Look People Nobody
Author
Talks
Woodwork
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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 / Film Director
Sound Of Music
Music Done Me
Ben
Music Me Done
Surpass
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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 / Film Director
Delighted
Enormous
Infallible
Sound Of Music
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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 / Film Director
War
Human Relationships
Might
Position
Reality
Tomorrow
Wonderful
Condition
Among
Dead
Create
Escape
Mattered
Relationships
Takes
The Only Thing
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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 / Film Director
Attitude
Box Office
Comfortable
Damn
Hollywood
Office
Great World Long
Box
Expect
Gets
Goes
Pictures
Screen
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