28 Quotes by William Wyler

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

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

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.

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

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

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!

I was a warmonger. I was concerned about Americans being isolationists.

It's not over until your legs give out, kid.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.