“The screen exaggerates and magnifies whatever it is that a great actor has. It’s almost as though greatness is a matter of quality rather than ability. Dad [Walter Huston] had it. He had that something that people felt in him. You sense it every time you’re near it. You see it in Audie Murphy’s eyes. It’s like a great horse. You go past his stall and you can feel the vibration in there.”

Huston and Murphy on the set of The Unforgiven, United Artists, 1960