A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.