29 Quotes by 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. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

Fortune favors the prepared.

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

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.

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

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

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

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 pretty good that time, too.

There’s action only if there is danger.