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William Wyler Quotes
William Wyler
American
Director
Born:
Jul 1
,
1902
Died:
Jul 27
,
1981
Director
Good
Great
Me
People
You
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There is nothing clever about confusion.
William Wyler
Confusion
Clever
Nothing
About
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.
William Wyler
Music
Business
Enormous
Delighted
Road
Piece
Well
Course
Material
Sound
Sound Of Music
Doing
Were
Infallible
Did
Companies
Even
Play
Second
It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William Wyler
Great
You
Nothing
Else
Percent
Get
Eighty
Script
Twenty
Actor
There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!
William Wyler
Me
Only
Prima
Pictures
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
William Wyler
Director
Otherwise
Everything
Must
Performance
Does
Story
Help
Useless
It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it would be unfair for me to have done both. I thought I'd leave something for somebody else. That's a quip.
William Wyler
Music
Me
Thought
Somebody
Unfair
Else
Would
Would-Be
Something
Both
Like
Looked
Sound
Leave
Sound Of Music
Surpass
Done
Even
Ben
I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it.
William Wyler
You
Man
Looking
Big
Signature
Tell
Constantly
Having
Another
Accused
Artistic
Just
Film
To me it's more fun and more challenging, too, to do different types of pictures.
William Wyler
Me
Too
Types
More
Pictures
Different
Fun
Different Types
Challenging
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