Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams John Huston More Quotes by John Huston More Quotes From John Huston What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious. John Huston magic film trying Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation. John Huston occupation unique world I am more lost in wonder than ever. John Huston awe wonder lost There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good? John Huston roots memories past Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. John Huston convenient use roots You're good, you're real good. John Huston real The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. John Huston day you loneliness together It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. John Huston like sugar color water After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. John Huston human only endeavor crime
