Zitat des Tages von 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'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.
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!
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
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.
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
There is nothing clever about confusion.
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.
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.