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.

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 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.

Afore me! It is so very late, That we may call it early by and by.

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

You hold substance in my psyche

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I view my time in politics as a chapter, not my life.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.