Howard Hawks Quote

Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is to figure out who the hell is going to play in it, your characters, and then after that to make it.


Quoted in Gerald Mast, Howard Hawks, Storyteller (1982)


Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is ...

Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is ...

Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is ...

Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is ...