Good Hawks Quotes

#1. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

John Twelve Hawks

#2. I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

Howard Hawks

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

Ryan Gosling

#6. I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

Burt Shavitz

#7. I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

Howard Hawks

#8. You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.

Armistead Maupin

#9. To get at the cause for a thing, we must study the effect.

Agatha Christie

#10. A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Howard Hawks

#11. Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

Richard Farnsworth

#13. I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretch.

Sara Foster