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

Tell it with pictures -- direct it like you were making a silent.

"When in doubt, make a western."

"Occasionally you get some luck in pictures. More occasionally you have had luck. If something happens that wasn't premeditated, photograph it."

"John [Ford] is half-tyrant, half-revolutionary; half-saint, half-satan; half-possible, half-impossible; half-genius, half- Irish."