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You're good, you're real good.
John Huston / Film Director
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I am more lost in wonder than ever.
John Huston / Film Director
Awe
Lost
Wonder
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Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.
John Huston / Film Director
Crime
Form
Left Hand
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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
John Huston / Film Director
God
Beer
Drinking
Drunk
Prefer
Dead
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Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
John Huston / Film Director
Dream
Cages
Hollywood
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
John Huston / Film Director
Crime
Endeavor
Form
Left Handed
After
Human
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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
John Huston / Film Director
Hollywood
Our Dreams
Cage
Catch
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It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
John Huston / Film Director
Color
Pouring
Sugar
Water
Roast
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I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
John Huston / Film Director
Casting
Rigour
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A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.
John Huston / Film Director
Art
Dare
Realizing
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I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
John Huston / Film Director
Inspiring
Movie
People
Trying
People Will Enough
Million
Million People
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Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.
John Huston / Film Director
Convenient
Roots
Use
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Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.
John Huston / Film Director
Able
Film
Theme
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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 / Film Director
Made
Moving
One Day
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Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
John Huston / Film Director
Faces
Facts
People
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For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston / Film Director
Character
Gone
Six
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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 / Film Director
Loneliness
Together
World
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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.
John Huston / Film Director
Be Careful
Careful
Force
Ideas
Inspiration
Position
Wind
Wait
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Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.
John Huston / Film Director
Firsts
Flow
Keys
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What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.
John Huston / Film Director
Film
Magic
Trying
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I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
John Huston / Film Director
Ideas
Play
Rip
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Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on…there was something touching and appealing about her.
John Huston / Film Director
Remember
Steps
Touching
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I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
John Huston / Film Director
Children
Pneumonia
Wine
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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.
John Huston / Film Director
Arches
Doors
Flow
Procession
Series
Speak
Time Great Walk
Backward
Corridor
Door
Walk
Opens
Realize
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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.
John Huston / Film Director
Movies
Individual
Loneliness
One Day
Die
Picture
Coming
Controlling
Directing
Frame
Involves
Move
Move On
Putting
Taking
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When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.
John Huston / Film Director
Forever
Realization
Understanding
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Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.
John Huston / Film Director
Art
Done
Talking
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She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.
John Huston / Film Director
Down And
Technique
Unique
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Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
John Huston / Film Director
Beautiful
Giving
Trying
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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?
John Huston / Film Director
Memories
Past
Roots
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Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.
John Huston / Film Director
Occupation
Unique
World
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