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.

There's action only if there is danger.

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

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

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.

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