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Howard Hawks Biography

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."

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I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

Anymore, Character, Characters, Mean, Thinking, Times

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

Girl, Insult, People, Think, Thinking

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

Good, Good Movie, Scene, Scenes, Three

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.

Character, Characters, Entirely, Name, Names, Two

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.

Bad, Bigger, Directors, Moving, Screen, Shooting

There's action only if there is danger.

Action, Danger, Hawks

I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

Begin, Interesting, Open, People, Sitting, Talking

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

Force, John, Screen, Screens, Wayne

Fortune favors the prepared.

Favors, Fortune, Prepared

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.

Bravo, Made, Pretty, Wayne, Years

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

Function, Inspiring, Make, Movie, Moving

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

Death, Drama, Form, Gun

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.

Gun, Know, Psychics, Sick, Thing

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

Job, Jobs, Talent, Use

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