It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.