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Howard Hawks [1896-1977] American

Rank: 103
Director, Film director

Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."

History

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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.		101
There's action only if there is danger.		102
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.	History	103
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.		104
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!		105
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.		106
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.		107
When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.		108
I think girls who insult people are very attractive.		109
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.		110
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.		111
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.		112
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.		113
It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.		114
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.		115
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.		116
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.		117

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