Danny Huston Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Danny Huston:
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
~Danny Huston
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Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.
~Danny Huston
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I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
~Danny Huston
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Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
~Danny Huston
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When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.
~Danny Huston
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I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
~Danny Huston
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I seem to play a lot of losers.
~Danny Huston
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Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.
~Danny Huston
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I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
~Danny Huston
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You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
~Danny Huston
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I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.
~Danny Huston
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I started as a director and just fell upon acting.
~Danny Huston
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I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
~Danny Huston
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The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
~Danny Huston
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As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
~Danny Huston
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Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
~Danny Huston
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