William Wyler - biography

“It’s eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors.  There’s nothing else to 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.”

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

“Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.”

William Wyler directed the following films:
The Crook Buster (1925)
The Gunless Bad Man (1926)
Ridin’ for Love (1926)
The Fire Barrier (1926)
Don’t Shoot (1926)
The Pinnacle Rider (1926)
Martin of the Mounted (1926)
Lazy Lightning (1926)
The Stolen Ranch (1926)
The Two Fister (1927)
Kelcy Gets His Man (1927)
Tenderfoot Courage (1927)
The Silent Partner (1927)
Blazing Days (1927)
Shooting Straight (1927)
Galloping Justice (1927)
The Haunted Homestead (1927)
Hard Fists (1927)
The Lone Star (1927)
The Ore Raiders (1927)
The Home Trail (1927)
Gun Justice (1927)
The Phantom Outlaw (1927)
The Square Shooter (1927)
The Horse Trader (1927)
Daze of the West (1927)
The Border Cavalier (1927)
Desert Dust (1927)
Thunder Riders (1928)
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)
The Shakedown (1929)
The Love Trap (1929)
Hell’s Heroes (1930)
The Storm (1930)
A House Divided (1931)
Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Her First Mate (1933)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Glamour (1934)
The Good Fairy (1935)
The Gay Deception (1935)
Barbary Coast (1935)
These Three (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Westerner (1940)
The Letter (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
The Fighting Lady (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Thunderbolt (1947)
The Heiress (1949)
Detective Story (1951)
Carrie (1952)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Big Country (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Children’s Hour (1961)
The Collector (1965)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Funny Girl (1968)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)