If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Stills belong in the lobby, not on the screen.

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.