Top 42 Howard Hawks Quotes
#1. For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.
Matt Bomer
#2. As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.
Martin Scorsese
#4. I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
Edward Burns
#5. I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
Richard Farnsworth
#6. But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.
Stephen Fry
#7. Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
Michael Mann
#8. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall
#9. Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
Lauren Bacall
#10. Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.
Lee Siegel
#11. Think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples ... once you taste them, you'll never see fairy tales in the same light again.
Cameron Jace
#12. Yes, well, how was I to know you would be so dramatic? Really, Francine, I don't know where you get it from." Then she primly grabbed the fowling gun before departing from the room.
Jade Lee
#13. I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
Alicia Witt
#14. (On a side note, I would give pretty much anything to have been in the room where the guy said, "I've got it! We'll call it . . . Soapland!")
Aziz Ansari
#15. When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
Kevin O'Leary
#16. If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.
John Bunyan
#17. It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.
Howard Hawks
#18. The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
Howard Hawks
#19. A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
Howard Hawks
#20. John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
Howard Hawks
#21. How exhausted I am suddenly! - though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling - almost - exhilarated.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. 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 hell out.
Howard Hawks
#23. I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.
Howard Hawks
#24. I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
Howard Hawks
#25. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
David Wong
#26. 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
#27. Josef: Why haven't you killed them?
Mick: There's more than one suspect..
Josef: So kill them all.
Rachel Hawthorne
#28. Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#29. 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
#30. Good. So, Mrs. Grey . . . by popular demand, I'm going to restrain you. His
E.L. James
#32. I think girls who insult people are very attractive.
Howard Hawks
#33. When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.
Howard Hawks
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#39. 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
#40. I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
Howard Hawks
#41. If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.
Howard Hawks
#42. 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
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