Film Quote by John Huston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.

— John Huston

I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.

— John Huston

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

“I don't got to show you no stinkin' bahdges!”

— John Huston

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