Peter Lorre, John Huston, and Humphrey Bogart on the set of The Maltese Falcon.
“I have great admiration for Fellini and Bergman, who create their own films. But I’m eclectic. I like doing one thing very different from another. I don’t even recognize a style in my work. If there is a style, it’s to adapt myself to the material consistently, and as it changes in each film, so does the style. I see each picture I make as being totally different from any other.”
John Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987)
If you had to stand or fall on just one of your films, which one would it be?
John Huston: I can’t name just one. I realize that the honors falling on me now are for the cumulative weight of my work. But I especially like The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Man Who Would Be King, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Fat City, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison. And I like moments in all my work, whatever the reason I made the picture, including some that I don’t like on the whole. I always shot each scene as if it was the most important scene in the picture and shot every picture as though it was the most important one I ever made.
Lionel Barrymore, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, and Humphrey Bogart taking a break during the filming Key Largo.
