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
The most eye-opening William Wyler quotes to discover and learn by heart
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.
If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.