Words matter. These are the best William Wyler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If Beethoven could write his ‘Eroica Symphony’ stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
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.
When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they’re really acting.
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.
Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.
The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.
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.
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
Great pictures can’t be entirely fictitious.
There is nothing clever about confusion.
