I was a warmonger. I was concerned about Americans being isolationists.

It’s a miserable life in Hollywood. You’re up at five or six o’clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

It’s eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There’s nothing else to it.

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I’ll punch him in the nose, and I don’t care how old he is.

I’m here to make good pictures. If I don’t see it, I won’t touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

The thrill I had looked forward to for so long just wasn’t there. In the middle of war, amidst so much suffering and death Hollywood seemed far off and unimportant.

It’s not over until your legs give out, kid.