For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey. — John Huston Copy Share Image
What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious. — 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
