Top 17 Quotes by Howard Hawks

There's action only if there is danger.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.