I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.
When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
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.