Top 15 Wyler Quotes

#1. Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

William Wyler

#2. I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

Gretchen Wyler

#3. Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.

John Boyne

#4. People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.

Mary Gaitskill

#5. 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

#6. Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

Ben Kingsley

#7. 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

#8. Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

Jeff

#9. Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

Charlton Heston

#10. If the Rapture happened today, would you be untakenable?

C.O. Wyler

#11. I am the keeper of my husband's history.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#12. 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

#13. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.

Kola Boof

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

William Wyler

#15. My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

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