Top 17 Quotes by Howard Hawks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.