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

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.

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.

There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

A man's high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

I don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.