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About the John Huston
John Marcellus Hustonwas an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1980.
Son of actor Walter Huston, he studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He then moved to Mexico and began writing, first plays and short stories, and later working in Los Angeles as a Hollywood screenwriter, and was nominated for several Academy Awards writing for films directed by William Dieterle and Howard Hawks, among others. His directorial debut came with The Maltese Falconand The Deadrespectively. He also acted in Casino Royaleand Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). He voiced the wizard Gandalf in The Hobbit (1977).
Huston has been referred to as “a titan”, “a rebel”, and a “renaissance man” in the Hollywood film industry. He traveled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced this to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He eventually returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. He was the father of actress Anjelica Huston, whom he directed to an Oscar win.
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I don’t try to guess what a million people will like. It’s hard enough to know what I like.
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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
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Hollywood has always been a cage… a cage to catch our dreams.
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You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
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What to do when inspiration doesn’t come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
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It’s not color, it’s like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
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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.
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
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