Howard Hawks Quotes

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• There's action only if there is danger.
• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
• John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
• I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for…
• You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
• A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
• I think girls who insult people are very attractive.
• The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
• I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is…
• I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of…
• Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the…
• I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.
• John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

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