Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

The change is for a cause.

By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.