When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

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.

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.