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.

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships with people who might be dead tomorrow were important. It is a sort of wonderful state of mind. It's too bad it takes a war to create such a condition among men.

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

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