A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

Fortune favors the prepared.

There's action only if there is danger.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

I would rather be dead than empty