William Wyler

Director

1902-07-01

Quotes by William Wyler

• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

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• 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.

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