Raoul Walsh

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”