When 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 HustonMost people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
John HustonMarilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onโฆthere was something touching and appealing about her.
John HustonEach 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