Author: Howard Hawks

Quotes

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.

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

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

- Howard Hawks

John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

- Howard Hawks

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

- Howard Hawks

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.

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

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

- Howard Hawks

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.

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

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