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.

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.

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

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.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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.

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