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Henry Hathaway, a son of a stage actress and manager, started his career as a child actor in westerns directed by Allan Dwan. His movie career was interrupted by World War I. After his discharge, he briefly tried a career in finance but then returned to Hollywood to work as an assistant director under such directors as Frank Lloyd, Paul Bern, ...
With Fleming I did "The Virginian." I did all those early Westerns, all those Zane Greys, the ones I did over again. I mostly learned from them how to handle people. I would take a script home and think. Now what would I tell these people to do to make the scene, how would I start it, where would be the climax, how I could get out of it, how do I get rid of the people, where would I do it - in front of the fire or on the couch, what would I do? And I'd make up my mind, and I'd make a lot of notes and then I'd see what they did. Entirely different! But you'd learn!
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[in 1971, about Richard Burton] [He] was always very professional. None of the behavior I was warned about. He was sober throughout, and always early on the set.
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I liked Lloyd [Lloyd Nolan]. He was a natural actor. He appeared just like any other guy. He wasn't good looking, wasn't a big star, wasn't impressive in his size. Just another guy, and that's what I liked about him.
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[on Dana Andrews] [He] had a quality. I'll tell you one thing he had like nobody I've ever seen in my life. Drunk or sober, he comes in in the morning and they're making him up and he'd say, "What do I do today?" And you say, "Do this." And he'd look at the script and he goes out and he's a district attorney and he pleads the case to the jury and he never misses a word. Pages of it.
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[on Seven Thieves (1960) Christ, it was supposed to be a fun film, and [Rod Steiger] is far, far from having a sense of humor]
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[on Gary Cooper] Gary Cooper was the first actor to believe you didn't have to mug to act, if you thought of what you were doing, it showed -- and he proved he was right.
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[1970 comment on Kim Novak] I worked one day with her and I quit.
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There's lots of nice guys walking around Hollywood but they're not eating.
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When I went to work in Universal Studios in 1914, there were five women directors. Lois Weber made the biggest pictures. John Ford and I alternated as prop men for this great director. If women haven't got a good directing job now, it's their own fault.
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You don't have to hold an inquest to find out who killed Marilyn Monroe. Those bastards in the big executive chairs killed her.
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To be a good director you've got to be a bastard. I'm a bastard and I know it.
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Being educated is making the pictures themselves, if you make it your business to pay attention.
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Directed 2 actors to Oscar nominations: Richard Widmark (Best Supporting Actor, Kiss of Death (1947)), and John Wayne (Best Actor, True Grit (1969)). Wayne won an Oscar for his performance.
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Hathaways was shooting a scene on location on Wall Street in New York City. Many of the windows in the adjoining buildings were filled with office workers leaning out to watch the filming going on below them. Hathaway got so frustrated with all the attendant noise that he finally leaped out of his director's chair, looked upwards at the crowds and yelled, "God damn it, I don't look over your shoulders when you work!".
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 441-446. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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