Top 15 Wyler Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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.
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
Ben Kingsley
#10. 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
#11. Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Jeff
#12. If the Rapture happened today, would you be untakenable?
C.O. Wyler
#14. 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
#15. It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William Wyler
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