John Ford Quotes

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

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

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

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

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

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

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

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

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

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

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.

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

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.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

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.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

When in doubt, make a western.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

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

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.

He hath shook hands with time.