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A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Fortune favors the prepared.

I think girls who insult people are very attractive.

There's action only if there is danger.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

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

It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

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