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1. "A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes." ~ Howard Hawks

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

3. "There's action only if there is danger." ~ Howard Hawks

4. "I think girls who insult people are very attractive." ~ Howard Hawks

5. "I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level." ~ Howard Hawks

6. "I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture." ~ Howard Hawks

7. "It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture." ~ Howard Hawks

8. "John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen." ~ Howard Hawks

9. "The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death." ~ Howard Hawks

10. "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." ~ Howard Hawks

11. "When you've got some talent, your job is to use it." ~ Howard Hawks

12. "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." ~ Howard Hawks

13. "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." ~ Howard Hawks

14. "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." ~ Howard Hawks

15. "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." ~ Howard Hawks

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