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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.