I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

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

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• Howard Hawks:

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

• Howard Hawks:

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• Howard Hawks:

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• Irving Thalberg:

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