If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

This is perhaps the hardest truth of any to grasp. Do we wake up every morning amazed that we are loved by God?

The greatest rewards lie in the unknown.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.