John Huston Quotes

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• I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
• 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 memories,…
• Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
• Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there…
• She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She…
• I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.
• 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 until…
• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see…
• Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
• Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist…
• I am more lost in wonder than ever.
• 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 whole…
• I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of…
• What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when…
• 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,…
• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture…
• It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
• I wasn't there long enough to hear them say what they were.

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