"I'm going to fire my camera man and get a better one, and I'm going to round me up a bunch of real boys that can get into the story and live it so well they won't need to do any acting,--boys that can stand a panoram on their work in the saddle.

I've been getting by with a bunch of freaks that think they're real riders if they can lope a horse up-grade without falling off backwards.

Most of my direction of those actorines has been knowing to a hair how much footage to give 'em without showing how raw their work is.
"They say the public demands a certain grade of rottenness in Western films, but I never believed that, down deep in my heart.

I believe the public stands for that stuff because they don't see any better.

This four-reeler I've got in mind will sure open the eyes of some producers--or I'll buy me a five-acre tract in Burbank and raise string beans for a living." "I've got a patch of string beans," sighed the Native Son, "that I've been sitting up nights with.