29 Quotes by Howard Hawks

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

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

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

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.