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It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

~William Wyler

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There is nothing clever about confusion.

~William Wyler

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Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

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If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

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

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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.

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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.

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Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

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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.

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The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfortable and don't give a damn about what goes up on the screen so long as it gets by at the box office. How can you expect people with that kind of attitude to make the kind of great pictures that the world will want to see?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 1st, 1902

Died: July 27th, 1981

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