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There's action only if there is danger.
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.
When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
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 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.
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
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.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
