Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

We're burnin' daylight!