Top 17 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.

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

There's action only if there is danger.

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

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!

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.

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

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.