Author: William Wyler

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

- William Wyler

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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