4 Quotes & Sayings By John Huston

John Huston was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. His career spanned more than 50 years, during which he worked as a director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, art director, actor, and photographer. He often said that he had "a picture in his mind" of what he wanted to film before he shot the scene. His artistic directorial debut was the epic adventure film The Maltese Falcon (1941) Read more

His best-known films include Moby Dick (1956), The Misfits (1961), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Fat City (1972), Chinatown (1974), The*Godfather Part II*(1974), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The*Godfather*(1972).

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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. John Huston
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Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams. John Huston
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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. 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. John Huston