Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks: I don't think plot as 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.

Howard Hawks: I never made a message picture, and I hope I never do.

Howard Hawks: (on John Wayne) He never squawks about anything. He's the easiest person I ever worked with. Because he never says anything about it, he just goes ahead and does it.

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

Howard Hawks: When you find out a thing that goes pretty well, you might as well do it again.

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

Howard Hawks: A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Howard Hawks: There's action only if there's danger.