Raoul Walsh

“To be a good director you have to be a bastard. I'm a bastard and I know it.”

“Unless a picture has motion, it isn't a picture.”

“Keep it moving. That's the secret. Keep it moving.”

“You've got to hit them in the first reel, and you've got to have a wallop at the end.”

“My God, I said, 'Is this all I have to do?' It was the easiest work I'd ever done in my life!”

“Well, I went to the D.W. Griffith-Biograph Company and I told them I was a cowboy.”

“I made pictures as a director and a writer and an actor. I was a jack-of-all-trades.”

“Actors are like children. You must lead them, you must be firm with them, but you must be kind.”

“Action is the thing. I don't believe in talking a picture to death.”

“I learned one thing from D.W. Griffith: if you can't write your story on the back of a postage stamp, you haven't got a story.”

“The camera is the audience. It's the most important person on the set.”