John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.
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.
There's action only if there is danger.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.