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.

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.

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.

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!

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