I completely storyboarded "The Maltese Falcon" because I didn`t want to lose face with the crew: I wanted to give the impression that I knew what I was doing.
[on his father Walter Huston] I hate stars. They`re not actors. I`ve been around actors all my life and I like them, but I never had an actor as a friend. Except Dad. And Dad never thought of himself as an actor. But the best actor I ever worked with was ...
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 pict...
I completely storyboarded "The Maltese Falcon" because I didn`t want to lose face with the crew: I wanted to give the impression that I knew what I was doing.
