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

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

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.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

When in doubt, make a western.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.