William Wyler
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"William Wyler" was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Notable works included Ben-Hur (1959 film)/Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Mrs. Miniver (film)/Mrs. Miniver (1942), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years, making him the only director of three Best Picture winners. Wyler received his first Oscar nomination for directing Dodsworth (film)/Dodsworth in 1936, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor, "sparking a 20-year run of almost unbroken greatness."

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

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

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Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

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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.

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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!

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

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The thrill I had looked forward to for so long just wasn't there. In the middle of war, amidst so much suffering and death Hollywood seemed far off and unimportant.

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