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Top 20 John Huston Quotes (2025 Update)

John Huston Quote: “Trust your instincts, and take control.”

1. “Trust your instincts, and take control.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he’d done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo’s. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.”

3. “Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he’d done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo’s. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “You’re good, you’re real good.”

4. “You’re good, you’re real good.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.”

5. “I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.”

6. “Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.”

7. “I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.”

8. “I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I am more lost in wonder than ever.”

9. “I am more lost in wonder than ever.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I Don’t Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It’s Hard Enough to Know What I Like.”

10. “I Don’t Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It’s Hard Enough to Know What I Like.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they’re capable of anything.”

11. “Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they’re capable of anything.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “I don’t approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn’t care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.”

13. “I don’t approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn’t care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You’ve found the key to the whole scene.”

14. “Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You’ve found the key to the whole scene.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.”

16. “The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “For sheer strength of character, I wouldn’t have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.”

17. “For sheer strength of character, I wouldn’t have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “A work of art doesn’t dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.”

18. “A work of art doesn’t dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn’t use it as root.”

19. “Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn’t use it as root.”

— John Huston

John Huston Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Huston

John Huston Quote: “Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.”

21. “Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.”

— John Huston

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