I don't know that I had any particular influence, but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.
Quotes about wyler (3 Quotes)
To work with a guy like Wyler early in your career was just an incredible thing, because he gave me an amazing amount of confidence.
William Wyler has always been famous for taking a lot of takes. There is this story that he did this scene with a bunch of very competent people, a very important scene in the movie, and he'd already done it thirty times. One of them came to Willie and said, 'I want to know what we're doing wrong. What do you want us to do' And Willie said, 'No, you're doing it fine. I'm just waiting for something to happen'.