A Quote by Howard Hawks
It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just enjoying the process - and you didn't even know why you were making the picture. It felt right. If someone asked, 'Why are you making this picture?' you probably couldn't describe it very well - and that's why it needs to be a photograph.
It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.
We have to find a way to not refuse to see where we are, what we are doing, and yet we must still live. And making sure to live - to go through life not around it - was always hard. Making sure to be in the vale of soul - making - as John Keats put it. Now it's insanely hard.
I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.
Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?
People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.
I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.
It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.
Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].
I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives. ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened.
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