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'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.

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

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 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.

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II

How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.