— You call that justice?
— Justice is the handmaiden of law.
— You said law was the handmaiden of justice.
— Works both ways.

It seemed to reflect the old American Spirit that was capable of doing so many unlikely things. There was a breadth and generosity and a carelessness about it that I fostered in the picture. It was an allegory, and the vengeance of the past interested me. My Grandfather would have been quite capable of coming back and destroying a place the way the judge did. I loved the audacity of the film. — John Huston