I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasi….

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photogr….

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then..

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, mos….

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes..

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

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart..

When in doubt, make a western..

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of ….

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters..

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them..

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness..

Revenge proves it's own executioner..

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh..

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day..

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them..

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner..

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease..

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart..

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles..