There's action only if there is danger.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

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