A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

- John Huston

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

- John Huston

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

- John Huston

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

- John Huston

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 …

- John Huston

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.

- John Huston

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

- John Huston

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

- John Huston

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 c…

- John Huston