There's action only if there is danger.

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!

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

Fortune favors the prepared.

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