There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. - John Huston
A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
- 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
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like. - John Huston
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly. - John Huston
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams - John Huston
Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
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
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.
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
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
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
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 …
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
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…
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