John Huston famous quotes

06-16-2025

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

#Loneliness #Together #World
I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.
-- John Huston

#People #Trying #Enough
Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
-- John Huston

#Dream #Hollywood #Cages
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

#Inspiration #Wind #Ideas
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

#Doors #Arches #Flow
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

#Rip #Play #Ideas
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

#Moving #One Day #Made
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 isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their ***** or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
-- John Huston

#Beautiful #Giving #Trying
You're good, you're real good.
-- John Huston

#Real
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
-- John Huston

#Art #Realizing #Dare
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

#Magic #Trying #Film
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

#Children #Wine #Pneumonia
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

#Keys #Flow #Firsts
I am more lost in wonder than ever.
-- John Huston

#Wonder #Lost #Awe
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

#Art #Talking #Done
She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.
-- John Huston

#Unique #Technique #Down And
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onâ€¦there was something touching and appealing about her.
-- John Huston

#Touching #Steps #Remember
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
-- John Huston

#People #Faces #Facts
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 memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?
-- John Huston

#Memories #Past #Roots
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
-- John Huston

#Thinking #Drunk #Alcohol

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