Howard Hawks Quotes

• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

  Howard Hawks

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

  Howard Hawks

  Good Movie, Three, Scene

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

  Howard Hawks

  Jobs, Use, Talent

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• I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

  Howard Hawks

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• Fortune favors the prepared.

  Howard Hawks

  Favors, Fortune, Prepared

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• 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.

  Howard Hawks

  Moving, Directors, Shooting

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• 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 that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

  Howard Hawks

  Talking, People, Interesting

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• There's action only if there is danger.

  Howard Hawks

  Hawks, Action, Danger

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• The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

  Howard Hawks

  Drama, Gun, Form

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• 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 the town, and make an entirely different picture.

  Howard Hawks

  Character, Names, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

  Howard Hawks

  Wayne, Force, Screens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

  Howard Hawks

  Gun, Psychics, Sick

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• I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

  Howard Hawks

  Years, Wayne, Made

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