- [regarding the string of "B" westerns he shot at the beginning of his career] You didn't have actors; you had cowboys who owned a horse.
- [explaining how he got the nickname "Wagon Wheel Joe"] I carried a box filled with different wagon wheels. Whenever I'd come to a scene which was just disgraceful in dialogue and all, I'd place a wagon wheel in one portion of the frame, and make an artistic shot out of it, so by the time the scene was over you only saw the artistic value and couldn't analyze what the scene was about.
- [about his arrival in Hollywood] I had grand illusions of being an actor. I sported a great big Adolphe Menjou mustache.
- [on the difference between working at a bottom-of-the-barrel studio like PRC and a top-of-the-line studio like MGM] If you asked [MGM] for a little clothes closet, they'd give you an eight-room house.
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