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.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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.

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.

But “almost done” is not done!

It's not about the storms we go through, it's about the umbrella that gets us through.

IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.

History is His story.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

Chicago is a pretty good town.