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Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

John Huston

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

After all, crime is only a lefthanded form of human endeavor.

John Huston

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

John Huston

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

John Huston

There is something elemental about Bette—a demon within her which threatens to break out and eat everybody, beginning with their ears.

John Huston

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

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

John Huston

John Huston

John Huston

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Born: August 5, 1906

Died: August 28, 1987 (aged 81)

Bio: John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

Known for:

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The African Queen (1951)
The Misfits (1961)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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