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 HustonThe directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
John HustonWhenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.
John HustonWhen you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an understanding, a realization that we'll never be assembled this way again. That these relationships are severed forever and ever. And each of these films is a little life.
John Huston