“I did it his way… Yes, I lost a battle, but I lost it to a genius… So many directors were such weak sisters that I would have to take over. Uncreative, unsure of themselves, frightened to fight back, they offered me none of the security that this tyrant did.”
Bette Davis, of working with William Wyler on The Letter (Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, as quoted by Mark Harris in Five Came Back: A Story Of Hollywood and the Second World War)