There's action only if there is danger.

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.

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.

Good sales copy creates good sales.

It is complexes that prevent women with a good appearance from adequately assessing themselves

I don't need the sea to drown in, your eyes are enough for me!

Shadows are our Dark Selves brought to Light.

Capturing moments other may never get to experience.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.