“War is simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage it.”

Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Do everything you ask of those you command.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple… To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

Al its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.