I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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

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.

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.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

Fortune favors the prepared.

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.