Fortune favors the prepared.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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