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 John Huston Quotation"Do it - try it - fight - write - act - direct - indulge - survive. John Huston can do it all. And he rubbed my back when I was sick." - Katharine Hepburn Toward the end of his life he listed what he would change: 1) I would spend more time with my children. 2) I would make my money before spending it. 3) I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. 4) I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. 5) I would not marry the fifth time. "Much that is best in Huston's work comes of his sense of what is natural to the eye and his delicate, simple feeling for space relationships...He loathes camera rhetoric and the shot-for-shot's sake; but because he takes each moment catch-as-catch-can and is so deeply absorbed in doing the best possible thing with it he has made any number of unforgettable shots." - James Agee "I've lived a number of lives. I'm inclined to envy the man who leads one life, with one job, and one wife, in one country, under one God. It may not be a very exciting existence, but at least by the time he's seventy-three he knows how old he is." On remakes: "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?" Movie Title: Chinatown (1974) as Noah Cross: Noah Cross : Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water. [Lunch is served; it's fish.] Noah Cross : I hope you don't mind. I believe they should be served with the head. Jake Gittes : Fine... long as you don't serve the chicken that way. Jake Gittes : I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Noah Cross : Oh my, yes. Jake Gittes : Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? Noah Cross : The future, Mr. Gitts, the future. Noah Cross : You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gitts. I like that. Noah Cross : 'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Noah Cross : You may think you know what you're dealing with, but, believe me, you don't. [Gittes grins.] Noah Cross : Why is that funny? Jake Gittes : That's what the District Attorney used to tell me in Chinatown. Noah Cross : See, Mr. Gitts, most people never have to face the fact that, at the right time and the right place, they're capable of... anything! Movie Title: Winter Kills (1979) as Pa Kegan: Pa Kegan : I got sixty million bucks riding on that ship, kiddo, and you leave her like a Friday-night hooker. Movie Title: Myra Breckinridge (1970) as Buck Loner: Buck Loner : What's that? Masseuse: Swedish massage. [She tries a whip, slapping her hand with it] Buck Loner : What do you... do with it. Masseuse: I beat you with it. [She slaps her hand again] Buck Loner : Does it... hurt? Masseuse: You bet your ass. Buck Loner : Something's wrong here, someplace... Myra : Gentlemen... I am Myron Breckinridge! Uncle Buck, your fag nephew became your neice two years ago in Copenhagen and is now free as a bird and happy in being the most extraordinary woman in the world! Buck Loner : That's the ball game. Movie Title: Bacall on Bogart (1988) as John Huston: John Huston : He's a much bigger star today than when he was alive. He has become what amounts to a cult figure. John Huston : [On "The Maltese Falcon":] The original intention was to have George Raft play it. But he pulled away from it because he didn't want to trust his career to a young director, someone who had never directed before. And Bogart, to my secret delight, was substituted. And that picture began, I think, a whole new career for Bogey. Movie Title: The Hobbit (1977) as Gandalf the Grey: Gandalf the Grey : I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means ME! Movie Title: The Wind and the Lion (1975) as John Hay: John Hay : Theodore! You are dangerous. You might even shoot somebody - accidentally I mean. Theodore Roosevelt : John, I'd never shoot anyone accidentally. I need their votes. John Hay : Madness! |
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