When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

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.

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.

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.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.