Howard Hawks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
-- Howard Hawks

#Moving #Directors #Ems
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

#Moving #Shooting #Pages
There's action only if there is danger.
-- Howard Hawks

#Action #Danger
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
-- Howard Hawks

#Good Movie #Three #Scene
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 itâ€™s more interesting.
-- Howard Hawks

#Talking #People #Interesting
John WayneÂ represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
-- Howard Hawks

#Wayne #Force
I think girls who insult people are very attractive.
-- Howard Hawks

#Girl #Thinking #People
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
-- Howard Hawks

#Drama #Gun #Form
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

#Character #Mean #Thinking
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

#Character #Names #Two

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