Hawks talks about his good friend, author William Faulkner with whom he collaborated on several movies.  In fact, Faulkner worked a lot in Hollywood, collaborating on many films but his only credited screenwriting was for Howard Hawks.  There’s one story I enjoyed a lot.  The director and the writer were getting ready to go hunting one day when Hawks received a phone call from Clark Gable.  Long story short, Gable joined the duo on the hunting trip.  They met, heading toward their destination and naturally started to talk.  Somehow the conversation turned toward literature so Gable asked Faulkner who he thought the good writers were.  Faulkner mentioned a few, “Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway and myself.”  To which Gable asked, “you write, Mr. Faulkner?” and without missing a beat Faulkner retorted, “yes, what do you do, Mr. Gable?”

Love it!