John Huston Quotes

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved.

Magic is my paint.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.

I'm knee-deep into fashion; I'm knee-deep into movies.

I have been a fan of movies from a very young age, and somehow, the magic of that - every single time I hear something or read something that could be made into a wonderful film or something somebody is asking me to be a part of - that connects. It just makes me feel like I'm going to be part of something magical again.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Art is a sense of magic.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.