36 Wise John Huston Quotes About Life (ACTOR)

Top 15 Most Famous John Huston Quotes (BEST)

“You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.”
John Huston

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job. — A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like. — I don’t try to guess what a million people will like. It’s hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself. — A work of art doesn’t dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission, and the babysitter were worth it.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. — A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.

A film is like a battleground - love, hate, action, violence, death... in one word, emotion. — A film is like a battleground: **love**, hate, **action**, violence, **death**… in one word, emotion.

Film is a collaborative medium, and everyone on set should feel free to contribute their ideas and insights.

Hollywood has always been a cage, a cage to catch our dreams. — Hollywood has always been a cage, a cage to catch our **dreams**.

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything. — Most people never have to face the fact that at the right **time** and the right place they’re capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes. — What to do when **inspiration** doesn’t come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

I relieve myself from the rigors of directing by casting the movie correctly.

11 Wise John Huston Quotes to Live by (WISDOM)

“Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he’d done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo’s. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.”
John Huston

Trust your instincts, and take control. — **Trust** your instincts, and take control.

“Talk to them about things they don’t know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn’t, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that’s about all there is to it.”
John Huston

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene. — Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You’ve found the key to the whole scene.

“When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there’s an understanding, a realization that we’ll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.”
John Huston

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic. When they work, it's, well, it's glorious. — What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the **truth** are closely allied and movies are sheer magic. When they work, it’s, well, it’s glorious.

“To me the ideal film – which I’ve never succeeded in making – would be as though the reel were behind one’s eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes. That’s why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.”
John Huston

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character. — There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a **character**.

“Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself – separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives – a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.”
John Huston

“I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.”
John Huston

“There is a willful lemming-like persistence in remaking past successes time after time. They can’t make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it’s a disaster. Why don’t we remake some of our bad pictures – I’d love another shot at ‘Roots of Heaven’ – and make them good?”
John Huston

2 John Huston Quotes on Marilyn Monroe

“She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.”
John Huston

“Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than there was something touching and appealing about her.”
John Huston