William Wyler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Morning #Hollywood #Shooting
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

#Horse #Lying #Night
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
-- William Wyler

#Scripts #Directors #Actors
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

#Loyalty #Country #Doubt
Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.
-- William Wyler

#Stills

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?
There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.
When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

William Wyler famous quotes

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