I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats. — John Huston Copy Share Image
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the… — John Huston Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A… — John Huston Copy Share Image
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she… — John Huston Copy Share Image
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than… — John Huston Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. — John Huston Copy Share Image
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. — John Huston Copy Share Image
I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like. — John Huston Copy Share Image
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around… — John Huston Copy Share Image
There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our… — John Huston Copy Share Image
