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

Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident.

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: photograph the people’s eyes.

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.

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

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life’s no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we’re caught in our own toils.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor’s I’ve shook off old mortality.

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 occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.