Howard Hawks Quotes

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Good scripts are hard to find.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

I like to direct for the big screen.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.