Howard Hawks quotes
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“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”
-- Howard HawksSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.”
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“A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.”
-- Howard HawksSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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.”
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“John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.”
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“I think girls who insult people are very attractive.”
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“The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.”
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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 HawksSource : Howard Hawks, Scott Breivold (2006). “Howard Hawks: Interviews”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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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 HawksSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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