Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
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 HustonThere 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