When in doubt, make a western.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Hillary's [Clinton] got some problems with Millennials.

Let man be true and every god a liar.