[Nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall met 44-year-old star Humphrey Bogart at the Warner Brothers studio in 1943 when the studio signed the young model to a contract. It was a brief meeting, with Bacall writing later that she found him] friendly. ... Cary Grant -- terrific! Humphrey Bogart -- yuck!

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

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

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!"

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

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.