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John Huston Quotes
Page 1 of 1John Huston
August 5, 1906 - August 28, 1987
Nationality: American
Category: Director
Subcategory: American Director
|  I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like. | | After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. | | 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. | | I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. | | Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams. | | The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. 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. | | 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. | | It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. |
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