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

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.

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.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.