Top 32 John Huston Quotes
#1. I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
John Logan
#2. The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
J.P. Donleavy
#3. John Huston is more of a creative director than most.
Robert Loggia
#4. Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
Allegra Huston
#5. We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.
Donald Sutherland
#6. John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
Eli Wallach
#7. There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.
John Huston
#8. When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.
John Huston
#9. 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 who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.
John Huston
#10. I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
John Huston
#11. For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston
#12. Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.
John Huston
#13. 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 was something touching and appealing about her.
John Huston
#14. What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.
John Huston
#15. Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
John Huston
#16. I don't got to show you no stinkin' bahdges!
John Huston
#17. After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
John Huston
#18. 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 the idea comes.
John Huston
#19. 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 hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
John Huston
#20. 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 is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
John Huston
#21. Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.
John Huston
#22. 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 backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
John Huston
#24. A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
John Huston
#25. Hollywood has always been a cage ... a cage to catch our dreams.
John Huston
#26. I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
John Huston
#27. 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 feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
John Huston
#28. I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
John Huston
#29. It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
John Huston
#32. 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 scene.
John Huston
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