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I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

~Howard Hawks

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

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I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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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.

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There's action only if there is danger.

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A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 30th, 1896

Died: December 26th, 1977

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