John Ford Quotes

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

When in doubt, make a western.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

Truth is child of Time.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.