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

- Howard Hawks

There's action only if there is danger.

- Howard Hawks

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

- 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 pret…

- Howard Hawks

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. Be…

- Howard Hawks

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

- Howard Hawks

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

- Howard Hawks

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 mak…

- 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 h…

- Howard Hawks