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.

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

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

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.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.