William Wyler

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

“If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”