Quotes by John Huston

John Huston

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.

Made

Moving

One Day

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

Art

Dare

Realizing

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Crime

Form

Left Hand

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Able

Film

Theme

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.

Occupation

Unique

World

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.

Art

Done

Talking

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn’t have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

Character

Gone

Six

Hollywood has always been a cage…a cage to catch our dreams

Cages

Dream

Hollywood

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

Awe

Lost

Wonder

I don’t approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn’t care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

Ideas

Play

Rip

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Able

Arches

Art

Awe

Beautiful

Beer

Cages

Casting

Character

Children

Convenient

Crime

Dare

Done

Doors

Down And

Dream

Drinking

Faces

Facts

Film

Firsts

Flow

Forever

Form

Giving

God

Gone

Hollywood

Ideas

Inspiration

Inspiring

Keys

Left Hand

Loneliness

Lost

Made

Magic

Memories

Movie

Moving

Occupation

One Day

Past

People

Play

Pneumonia

Real

Realization

Realizing

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Quotes by John Huston

John Huston

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.

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

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn’t have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

Hollywood has always been a cage…a cage to catch our dreams

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

I don’t approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn’t care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.

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