28 Quotes by William Wyler

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

The good ones push their luck to the limit - like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.

Look at 'Marienbad' honestly. What is it? It is just another talking radio show with pictures. Nobody acts. People stand around while the author talks about the woodwork.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.

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.

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.

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.