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.

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• Howard Hawks:

  You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as th

• Howard Hawks:

  I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

• Howard Hawks:

  I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

• Howard Hawks:

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

• Howard Hawks:

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

• Howard Hawks:

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

• Howard Hawks:

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• Irving Thalberg:

  A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

• Irving Thalberg:

  Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

• Irving Thalberg:

  Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.