Author: Howard Hawks

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

- Howard Hawks

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