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.

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.

Learning the difference between God's intervention, the devil's mischief, and PMS can lead to increased happiness.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.